Gendered Epidemic: Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS / Edition 1

by Nancy L. Roth, Katie Hogan

Overview

Since nearly the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, activists have signaled the inadequacy of prevention strategies and drug protocols that have been developed from research done primarily on men. The latest C.D.C. figures prove they were right; for the first time since the beginning of the epidemic, AIDS cases among white men have fallen, yet the largest increases are among women. Weaving together theoretical, critical, and practical perspectives, Gendered Epidemic is a collection of essays that questions the add women and stir model that governs most HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts. The individual essays describe conflicts and contradictions, and pose new theories and practices. Written by HIV positive women, theorists, teachers, artists, policy makers and activists, it offers insights necessary to stem the spread of HIV.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415917858
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/02/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nancy L. Roth is Outcomes Research Manager for HIV drugs at Roche Labs, Inc. in New Jersey. Katie Hogan is Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY.

Table of Contents

Cindy Patton — Preface: Women, Write, AIDS ,Nancy L. Roth and Katie J. Hogan — Introduction: Gendered Epidemic,I. GENDERED HABITS: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND HIV/AIDS,1. John Nyuyet Erni — Ambiguous Elements: Rethinking the Gender/Sexuality Matrix in an Epidemic,II. GENDERED ABJECTION: PREVENTION-POLICY AND PRACTICE,2. Karen Zivi — Constituting the Clean and Proper Body: Convergences between Abjection and AIDS,3. Amber Hollibaugh — Transmission, Transmission, Where's the Transmission?,4. Carmen Vazquez — The Good and the Bad,5. Cynthia Madansky —Fierce Fists,6. Marion Banzhaf and Chyrell Bellamy — A Conversation about Sex: Developing a Woman-Centered Approach to HIV Prevention,III. GENDERED SILENCE: REPRESENTATION-EXCLUSIONS AND INCLUSIONS,7. Paula Treichler and Catherine Warren — Maybe Next Year: Feminist Silence and the AIDS Epidemic ,8. Carra Leah Hood — Scarlett Begat Kim: A Counter-Biography,9. Katie Hogan — Gendered Visibilities in Black Women's AIDS Narratives,10. Flavia Rondo — The Person With AIDS: The Body, the Feminine, and the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt,11. Alexandra Juhasz — Make a Video for Me: Alternative AIDS Video by Women,Contributors,Index

Editorial Reviews

HIV-positive women, theorists, teachers, artists, policy makers, and activists challenge the idea that AID and HIV research done primarily on men can simply be adapted to women. They discuss conflicts and contradictions and suggest new theories and practices. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews