1st Edition
Gendered Epidemic Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
