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OverviewBeth E. Schneider is Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the co-editor of The Social Context of AIDS . Nancy E. Stoller is Professor of Sociology and Community Studies and Director of the Women's Health Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Beth Schneider , Nancy StollerPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.467kg ISBN: 9781566392693ISBN 10: 1566392691 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 27 January 1995 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContributors Introduction: Feminist Strategies of Empowerment Beth E. Schneider and Nancy Stoller Part I: Women Confront the Problem of AIDS 1. AIDS in the 1990s: Individual and Collective Responsibility Eka Esu-Williams 2. Complications of Gender: Women, AIDS, and Law Nan Hunter 3. African-American Women at Risk: Notes on the Socio-Cultural Context of HIV Diane Lewis 4. Social Control, Civil Liberties, and Women's Sexuality Beth E. Schneider and Valerie Jenness Part II: Women and the Problematics of HIV Prevention 5. Sex Workers Fight Against Aids: An International Perspective Pricilla Alexander 6. Women in Families with Hemophilia and HIV: Improving Communication about Sensitive Issues Cathy Greenblat 7. AIDS Prevention, Minority Women, and Gender Assertiveness Barbara Sosnowitz 8. Transferability of American AIDS Prevention Models to South Afircan Youth Ntombifuthi Agnes Mtshali 9. Constructing the Outreach Moment: Street Intervention to Women at Risk Cathy J. Reback Part III: Women Organize AIDS Care and Foster Social Change 10. Call Us Survivors! Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD) Rebecca Dennison 11. CAL-PEP: The Struggle to Survive Gloria Lockett 12. Lesbian Denial and Lesbian Leadership in the AIDS Epidemic: Bravery and Fear in the Construction of a Lesbian Geography of Risk Amber Hollibaugh 13. Some Comments on the Beginnings of AIDS Outreach to Women Drug Users in San Francisco Moher Downing 14. Action-Research and Empowerment in Africa Brooke Grundfest Schoepf 15. Lesbian Involvement in the AIDS Epidemic: Changing Roles and Generational Differences Nancy Stoller 16. The Role of Nurses in the HIV Epidemic Marcy Fraser and Diane Jones Part IV: Problems and Policies for Women in the Future 17. Challenges and Possibilities: Women, HIV, and the Health Care System in the 1990s Helen Rodriguez-Trias and Carola Marte 18. AIDS, Ethics, Reproductive Rights: No Easy Answers Cheri Pies 19. How AIDS Changes Development Priorities Mabel BiancoReviewsSchneider and Stoller have provided an invaluable resource to researchers and policymakers who often overlook the impact of AIDS on women and women of color in particular. This collection documents and analyzes women's experiences with AIDS, always pointing to the centrality of gender in understanding AIDS. Drawing on analyses of sexuality, law, public policy, public health, and sociology, these essays fill and important void in our knowledge of this important social problem. -Margaret L. Andersen, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Delaware Finally! This book doesn't just repeat well-known data about women and AIDS or stop at flagging the inextricable connection between women's social roles, status, and rights and their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS-it deals directly with how to make a difference. The editors have made a major contribution to global learning-by providing examples from the United States and around the world which speak directly and honestly about successes and failures. This book signals the long-awaited and critically important linkage between feminist strategies and action for HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Through its accounts of struggle and action, this book sharply illustrates the fundamental linkage between human rights and health. Many this book catalyze women and men of courage and conscience! -Jonathan Mann, Director, International AIDS Center, Harvard School of Public Health ...a welcome addition to the women's health section.... These original essays discuss the increasingly rapid spread of AIDS among women, including women of color, lesbians, and low income women. -Feminist Bookstore News ...a welcome addition to the women's health section... These original essays discuss the increasingly rapid spread of AIDS among women, including women of color, lesbians, and low income women. --Feminist Bookstore News Finally! This book doesn't just repeat well-known data about women and AIDS or stop at flagging the inextricable connection between women's social roles, status, and rights and their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS--it deals directly with how to make a difference. The editors have made a major contribution to global learning--by providing examples from the United States and around the world which speak directly and honestly about successes and failures. This book signals the long-awaited and critically important linkage between feminist strategies and action for HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Through its accounts of struggle and action, this book sharply illustrates the fundamental linkage between human rights and health. Many this book catalyze women and men of courage and conscience! --Jonathan Mann, Director, International AIDS Center, Harvard School of Public Health Schneider and Stoller have provided an invaluable resource to researchers and policymakers who often overlook the impact of AIDS on women and women of color in particular. This collection documents and analyzes women's experiences with AIDS, always pointing to the centrality of gender in understanding AIDS. Drawing on analyses of sexuality, law, public policy, public health, and sociology, these essays fill and important void in our knowledge of this important social problem. --Margaret L. Andersen, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Delaware Author InformationBeth E. Schneider is Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the co-editor of The Social Context of AIDS. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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