Women and AIDS: Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation - ed. Nancy L. Roth & Linda K. Fuller

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 key, the book's authors maintain, 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 reseat 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.

Softcover.