Overview

In the late-1990s young adults are contracting HIV more rapidly than virtually any period during the past two decades. Young black and Latin women are bearing the brunt of this wave of infection. This text explores the factors associated with HIV infection among young, black women. Drawing on ethnographic study and interviews, the author introduces to the reader many young women who are dealing with economic pressures, family relationships, dating and courtship, intimate relationship issues, and questions of sexual identity. These along with the mythology surrounding HIV and AIDS - and knowledge about contraception - influence whether or not a black teenager will engage in risky activity.

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Author:   Renée T. White
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9780847685868

ISBN 10:   0847685861
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   23 December 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: To Be Young, Female, and Black Chapter 2 Picturing the AIDS Epidemic Chapter 3 In the City Chapter 4 Talking to Girlfriends and Family Chapter 5 Building Relationships: Love, Dating, and Romance Chapter 6 Contraception: Safer Sex or Birth Control? Chapter 7 Ultimate Risk: Perceptions of AIDS and HIV Chapter 8 Just Say No?: Reflections on the Reality of AIDS Chapter 9 Appendix 1: Description of the Study Chapter 10 Appendix 2: HIV- and AIDS-Related Resources Chapter 11 Notes Chapter 12 References Chapter 13 Index

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Renee White listened carefully to teenage women speaking about love, sex, motherhood, HIV disease and the future, keeping in sight the links between the women's personal behaviors and broader social contexts. Her meticulous analysis shows us that adolescents and health organisations may hold different views about what constitutes risky sexual behavior, why condoms are so seldom used, and why current health education fails to have an impact on the lives of young black women living in poverty. Dispensing with many popularly held assumptions about teenage sexual behavior, this book clears the path for more finely tuned and effective forms of health intervention and evaluation. -- Shirley Lindenbaum, City University of New York This book demonstrates why the fight against AIDS must include a responsibility to improve the social and economic opportunities available to young black women. * Siecus Report, Vol. 27, No. 5 * Putting Risk in Perspective is a powerful, thought-provoking book that examines one of the most challenging problems confronting young black female Americans today-their increasing risk of infection from HIV. White's book does succeed on many levels. First, it points to the importance of the relative meaning of the risk. Secondly, she bases her analyses largely on the assumption that racial identity and social class affect sexual and reproductive behavior. Third, her research provides compelling evidence that efforts to reduce poverty and inequality would immediately diminish the new cases of HIV infection among young women who are poor. -- Carrie E. Foote-Ardah * Qualitative Sociology * White's work goes beyond a mere identification of the issue of condom negotiation. She explores poverty, social class, parental relationships, friends and community role models as contributing factors in the development of sexual attidues and behaviors of Black adolescent females. It is a valuable tool as a reader for social work, nursing, education, psychology, medicine and other human services students. * Journal Of Hiv/Aids Prevention and Education * Reports on results of an investigation of the sexual lives of 53 urban, female, African-American teenagers in the era of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the early 1990s in New Haven, CTTTTT * Sociological Abstracts, April 2000 * Reports on results of an investigation of the sexual lives of 53 urban, female, African-American teenagers in the era of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the early 1990s in New Haven, CT * Sociological Abstracts, April 2000 * Putting Risk in Perspective is a powerful, thought-provoking book that examines one of the most challenging problems confronting young black female Americans today-their increasing risk of infection from HIV. White's book does succeed on many levels. First, it points to the importance of the relative meaning of the risk. Secondly, she bases her analyses largely on the assumption that racial identity and social class affect sexual and reproductive behavior. Third, her research provides compelling evidence that efforts to reduce poverty and inequality would immediately diminish the new cases of HIV infection among young women who are poor. -- Carrie E. Foote-Ardah * Qualitative Sociology *

Putting Risk in Perspective is a powerful, thought-provoking book that examines one of the most challenging problems confronting young black female Americans today--their increasing risk of infection from HIV. White's book does succeed on many levels. First, it points to the importance of the relative meaning of the risk. Secondly, she bases her analyses largely on the assumption that racial identity and social class affect sexual and reproductive behavior. Third, her research provides compelling evidence that efforts to reduce poverty and inequality would immediately diminish the new cases of HIV infection among young women who are poor.--Carrie E. Foote-Ardah Qualitative Sociology

Renee White listened carefully to teenage women speaking about love, sex, motherhood, HIV disease and the future, keeping in sight the links between the women's personal behaviors and broader social contexts. Her meticulous analysis shows us that adolescents and health organisations may hold different views about what constitutes risky sexual behavior, why condoms are so seldom used, and why current health education fails to have an impact on the lives of young black women living in poverty. Dispensing with many popularly held assumptions about teenage sexual behavior, this book clears the path for more finely tuned and effective forms of health intervention and evaluation. -- Shirley Lindenbaum, City University of New York This book demonstrates why the fight against AIDS must include a responsibility to improve the social and economic opportunities available to young black women. Siecus Report, Vol. 27, No. 5 Putting Risk in Perspective is a powerful, thought-provoking book that examines one of the most challenging problems confronting young black female Americans today-their increasing risk of infection from HIV. White's book does succeed on many levels. First, it points to the importance of the relative meaning of the risk. Secondly, she bases her analyses largely on the assumption that racial identity and social class affect sexual and reproductive behavior. Third, her research provides compelling evidence that efforts to reduce poverty and inequality would immediately diminish the new cases of HIV infection among young women who are poor. -- Carrie E. Foote-Ardah Qualitative Sociology White's work goes beyond a mere identification of the issue of condom negotiation. She explores poverty, social class, parental relationships, friends and community role models as contributing factors in the development of sexual attidues and behaviors of Black adolescent females. It is a valuable tool as a reader for social work, nursing, education, psychology, medicine and other human services students. Journal Of Hiv/Aids Prevention and Education Reports on results of an investigation of the sexual lives of 53 urban, female, African-American teenagers in the era of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the early 1990s in New Haven, CTTTTT Sociological Abstracts, April 2000 Reports on results of an investigation of the sexual lives of 53 urban, female, African-American teenagers in the era of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the early 1990s in New Haven, CT Sociological Abstracts, April 2000 Putting Risk in Perspective is a powerful, thought-provoking book that examines one of the most challenging problems confronting young black female Americans today-their increasing risk of infection from HIV. White's book does succeed on many levels. First, it points to the importance of the relative meaning of the risk. Secondly, she bases her analyses largely on the assumption that racial identity and social class affect sexual and reproductive behavior. Third, her research provides compelling evidence that efforts to reduce poverty and inequality would immediately diminish the new cases of HIV infection among young women who are poor. -- Carrie E. Foote-Ardah Qualitative Sociology

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Renée T. White is assistant professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University.

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