Women and AIDS: negotiating safer practices, care, and representation

This book discusses negotiating safer sex Negotiation in cross-Cultural Romantic Dyads, and the role of women as Carers in the Social Construction of AIDS Through the Eyes of Mother, Friend, and Nurse.

Abstract

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 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 Memorial Quilt * Redressing Sanuk: Asian AIDS and the Practices of Women's Resistance * The Desire to Direct Differently: Women Producer/Directors of Films * Sentimentality, Race, and Boys on the Side * Index * Reference Notes Included