Women and AIDS: Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation (Paperback)

Contents Introduction Part I. Negotiating Safer Practices Reconsidering the HIV/AIDS Prevention Needs of Latino Women in the U.S. Understanding Safer Sex Negotiation in a Group of Low-Income African Women HIV-Related Communication and Power in Women Injecting Drug Users Safer Sex Negotiation in Cross-Cultural Romantic Dyads: An Extension of Ting-Toomey’s Face Negotiation Theory Navigating the Freedoms of College Life: Students Talk About Alcohol, Gender, and Sex Part II. Negotiating Care Communicating an HIV+ Diagnosis Affirming the Role of Women as Carers: The Social Construction of AIDS Through the Eyes of Mother, Friend, and Nurse Enacting Care: Successful Recruitment, Retention, and Compliance of Women in HIV/AIDS Medical Research Part III. Negotiating Representation Women and the AIDS Memorial Quilt Redressing Sanuk: “Asian AIDS” and the Practices of Women’s Resistance The Desire to Direct Differently: Women Producer/Directors of AIDS Films Sentimentality, Race, and Boys on the Side Index Reference Notes Included