Women And AIDS

by Roth, Nancy L.; Fuller, Linda K.

• ISBN13: 9780789060143
• ISBN10: 0789060140
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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. 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: using the media for HIV-related social action and to promote women's views of HIV and sexuality prison health care for HIV-positive women cultural constructions of sex and drug sharing in a variety of communities long-term changes that will empower women delivering an HIV-positive diagnosis to patients gender roles and caregiving the language we use to talk about "Third World" women and "Asian AIDS" women AIDS filmmakers/videographers For the benefit of AIDS activists, health care providers, and counselors, Women and AIDS discusses women and their communication and awareness from virtually every angle. This book analyzes situations where communication breaks down--from the woman who can't openly discuss safe sex with her partner, to the drunk college student who "hooks up," to the doctor who gives an HIV-positive diagnosis without compassion--and offers communication solutions. This will help women avoid such risks, establish communication and safety in their lives, and construct meaningful roles in relationship to HIV/AIDS.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	xi	(2)
Contributors	xiii
Introduction	1	(6)
PART I: NEGOTIATING SAFER PRACTICES	7	(124)
Chapter 1. Reconsidering the HIV/AIDS Prevention Needs of Latino Women in the United States	7	(36)
Marcela Raffaelli
Mariana Suarez-Al-Adam
Introduction	7	(3)
Factors that Affect Latino Women's Ability to Implement Risk Reduction Measures	10	(12)
Traditional Approaches to HIV Prevention	22	(4)
Directions for Future Intervention Efforts	26	(17)
Chapter 2. Understanding Safer Sex Negotiation in a Group of Low-Income African-American Women	43	(28)
Gina Ann Margillo
T. Todd Imahori
Literature Review	44	(4)
Method	48	(2)
Findings	50	(10)
Discussion	60	(4)
Epilogue	64	(7)
Chapter 3. HIV-Related Communication and Power in Women Injecting Drug Users	71	(10)
Deborah L. Brimlow
Michael W. Ross
Communication Skill	74	(7)
Chapter 4. Safer Sex Negotiation in Cross-Cultural Romantic Dyads: An Extension of Ting-Toomey's Face Negotiation Theory	81	(20)
Gust A. Yep
Intimate Communication and Safer Sex Negotiation	83	(1)
Face Negotiation Theory	84	(11)
Summary, Conclusions, and Future Directions	95	(6)
Chapter 5. Navigating the Freedoms of College Life: Students Talk About Alcohol, Gender, and Sex	101	(30)
Deborah J. Cohen
Linda C. Lederman
Introduction	101	(2)
Methodology	103	(2)
Disconnection from Family and Freedom from Parental Control: The Role of Alcohol in the Development of Shared Experiences, Self-Preservation, and Connecting to a New Community	105	(6)
Freedom, Self-Protection, and Responsibility for One's Self: Add Alcohol and Sex and Stir	111	(5)
Learning the Dos and Don'ts of College Drinking: Students' Perceptions of the Negative Consequences of Drinking, and Learning to Avoid These Consequences	116	(4)
Connecting the Students' Voices with the Research on College Alcohol Consumption, Sexual Practice, and Experiential Learning Theory	120	(4)
Conclusion	124	(7)
PART II: NEGOTIATING CARE	131	(80)
Chapter 6. Communicating an HIV-Positive Diagnosis	131	(24)
Lorraine D. Jackson
Michael J. Selby
Death, Fear, and Stigma	132	(2)
Communication with Health Care Providers	134	(3)
The Present Research Project	137	(1)
Results	138	(7)
Discussion	145	(2)
Recommendations	147	(3)
Conclusion	150	(5)
Chapter 7. Affirming the Role of Women As Carers: The Social Construction of AIDS Through the Eyes of Mother, Friend, and Nurse	155	(26)
Diane M. Kimoto
Literature Review	156	(3)
Methodology	159	(1)
Women AIDS Carers: Establishing Their Visibility	159	(8)
Conclusion	167	(2)
Appendix	169	(12)
Chapter 8. Enacting Care: Successful Recruitment, Retention, and Compliance of Women in HIV/AIDS Medical Research	181	(30)
Nancy L. Roth
Myra Shoub Nelson
Carol Collins
Pamela Emmons
Mary Alderson
Frank Hatcher
Barbara Nabrit-Stephens
Mary Ann South
Recruitment	183	(4)
Retention and Compliance	187	(3)
Methods	190	(2)
Dimensions of Success	192	(10)
Conclusion	202	(9)
PART III: NEGOTIATING REPRESENTATION	211	(108)
Chapter 9. Women and the AIDS Memorial Quilt	211	(20)
David F. Shaw
Quilting and Women's Communication	213	(3)
The Living, the Dead, and AIDS	216	(3)
The Symbolic Representation of the Dead	219	(5)
Healing Through the Quilt: Turning Pain into Action	224	(4)
Conclusion	228	(3)
Chapter 10. Redressing Sanuk: "Asian AIDS" and the Practices of Women's Resistance	231	(26)
John Nguyet Erni
Tapestries	233	(9)
"The Care of the Self"	242	(8)
Between the Lines	250	(7)
Chapter 11. To Desire to Direct Differently: Women Producer/Directors of AIDS Films	257	(36)
Linda K. Fuller
Review of the Literature	258	(2)
Feminist Filmmaking	260	(1)
HIV/AIDS Filmmaking	261	(1)
Surveying Women Producer/Directors of AIDS Films	262	(14)
Conclusions	276	(1)
Appendix I: Contacts	277	(3)
Appendix II: Letter to AIDS-Related Agencies	280	(1)
Appendix III: Letter to Potential Producer/Director Interviewees	281	(2)
Appendix IV: Survey Instrument	283	(2)
Appendix V: Filmography/Videography	285	(2)
Appendix VI: Distributors	287	(6)
Chapter 12. Sentimentality, Race, and Boys on the Side	293	(26)
Katie Hogan
Sentimental Feminism	296	(5)
The Desexualization of Whoopi	301	(4)
Whoopi As Mammy Figure	305	(3)
Black Women and AIDS	308	(1)
Contact with Departed Spirits	309	(3)
Conclusion: Sentimentality and AIDS	312	(7)
Index	319