Women Resisting AIDS: Feminist Strategies of Empowerment (Health, Society, and Policy)

This collection of original essays discusses the increasingly rapid spread of AIDS among women, considering the varying experiences and responses of women of color, lesbians, and economically impoverished women. The essays range widely from policy assessments to case studies, focusing on women as sufferers, caretakers, policy activists, community organizers, and educators. 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 Aids In The 1990s / Eka Esu-williams -- Complications Of Gender / Nan D. Hunter -- African-american Women At Risk / Diane K. Lewis -- Social Control, Civil Liberties, And Women's Sexuality / Beth E. Schneider And Valerie Jenness -- Sex Workers Fight Against Aids / Priscilla Alexander -- Women In Families With Hemophilia And Hiv / Cathy Stein Greenblat -- Aids Prevention, Minority Women, And Gender Assertiveness / Barbara G. Sosnowitz -- Transferability Of American Aids Prevention Models To South African Youth / Ntombifuthi Agnes Mtshali -- Constructing The Outreach Moment / Cathy J. Reback -- Call Us Survivors! / Rebecca Denison -- Cal-pep / Gloria Lockett -- Lesbian Denial And Lesbian Leadership In The Aids Epidemic / Amber Hollibaugh -- Some Comments On The Beginnings Of Aids Outreach To Women Drug Users In San Francisco / Moher Downing -- Action-research And Empowerment In Africa / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- Lesbian Involvement In The Aids Epidemic / Nancy E. Stoller -- Role Of Nurses In The Hiv Epidemic / Marcy Fraser And Diane Jones -- Challenges And Possibilities / Helen Rodriquez-trias And Carola Marte -- Aids, Ethics, Reproductive Rights / Cheri Pies -- How Aids Changes Development Priorities / Mabel Bianco. [edited] By Beth E. Schneider And Nancy E. Stoller. Includes Bibliographical References. Original essays discuss the increasingly rapid spread of AIDS among women, including the responses of women of color, lesbians, and low-income women Features essays which discuss the rapid spread of AIDS among women, including the responses of women of color, lesbians, and low-income women.