Women Resisting AIDS: Feminist Strategies of Empowerment

CONTENTS......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction : Feminist Strategies of Empowerment......Page 14
PART I.Women Confront the Problem of AIDS......Page 34
AIDS in the 1990s: Individual and Collective Responsibility......Page 36
Complications of Gender: Women, AIDS, and the Law......Page 45
African-American Women at Risk: Notes on the Sociocultural Context of HIV Infection......Page 70
Social Control, Civil Liberties, and Women's Sexuality......Page 87
PART II. Women and the Problems of HIV Prevention......Page 110
Sex Workers Fight Against AIDS: An International Perspective......Page 112
Women in Families with Hemophilia and HIV: Improving Communication About Sensitive Issues......Page 137
AIDS Prevention, Minority Women, and Gender Assertiveness......Page 152
Transferability of American AIDS Prevention Models to South African Youth......Page 175
Constructing the Outreach Moment: Street Interventions to Women at Risk......Page 183
PART III. Women Organize AIDS Care and Foster Social Change......Page 206
Call Us Survivors! Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD)......Page 208
CAL-PEP: The Struggle to Survive......Page 221
Lesbian Denial and Lesbian Leadership in the AIDS Epidemic: Bravery and Fear in the Construction of a Lesbian Geography of Risk......Page 232
Some Comments on the Beginnings of AIDS Outreach to Women Drug Users in San Francisco......Page 244
Action-Research and Empowerment in Africa......Page 259
Lesbian Involvement in the AIDS Epidemic: Changing Roles and Generational Differences......Page 283
The Role of Nurses in the HIV Epidemic......Page 299
PART IV. Problems and Policies for Wom en in the Future......Page 312
Challenges and Possibilities: Women, HIV, and the Health Care System in the 1990s......Page 314
AIDS, Ethics, Reproductive Rights: No Easy Answers......Page 335
How AIDS Changes Development Priorities......Page 348