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Women And AIDS: Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation (Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies) (Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies) by Ellen Cole; Esther D Rothblum; Linda K Fuller; Nancy Roth is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Women And AIDS: Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation (Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies) (Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies) about?

<p>For many women, the advice “Use a condom!” is not enough to help protect them from HIV infection. As Women and AIDS reveals, “negotiating” safer sex practices is a very complex issue for women who are involved in relationships where they do not enjoy physical, social, or economic equality. The book’s authors maintain that the key to curbing the spread of HIV and to caring for those already infected—is communication. Women and AIDS is the first volume to address HIV/AIDS and women from a communication perspective.</p> <p>This helpful guidebook addresses how women might achieve safer sexual and drug injection practices with partners, but it also explores women’s negotiation of the health care system as patients, medical research subjects, and caregivers. It challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between care providers and patients and the meaning of patient compliance and raises important questions about gender, race, and class that are exacerbated by the epidemic. Designed to ground interventions in the realities of women’s lives, Women and AIDS discusses what women can do to get around communication and health care obstacles. To this end, you will learn about:

Author

Ellen Cole; Esther D Rothblum; Linda K Fuller; Nancy Roth

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317712435

Subjects

Sociology, Medical, Science