Vamps, Virgins, and Victims

How Can Women Fight AIDS?

Author: Robin Gorna
ISBN: 9780304328093

This women-centred approach to analyzing the different impacts of the pandemic on women and men, and how HIV/AIDS function as a paradigm for other women's issues. Questions addressed include: what is the relationship between AIDS and women's health, sexuality and socio-economic status?; is there a feminist agenda on AIDS?; how have women been portrayed in discourse about the epidemic?; are women living with the virus treated differently from men?; and what activities put women at risk?.

Publisher: Cassell
Publish Date: 1996-01-01

Subjects: Health & Fitness / Women's Health, Health & Fitness / Diseases / AIDS & HIV

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: HIV/AIDS)