Choosing Unsafe Sex : : AIDS-Risk Denial Among Disadvantaged Women /

Choosing Unsafe Sex : : AIDS-Risk Denial Among Disadvantaged Women / / E. J. Sobo.

Choosing Unsafe Sex focuses on the ways in which condom refusal and beliefs regarding HIV testing reflect women's hopes for their relationships and their desires to preserve status and self-esteem. Many of the inner-city women who participated in Dr. Sobo's research were seriously involved...

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Sobo, E. J.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©1996
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 10 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Women and AIDS in the United States
  • Chapter 3. AIDS Education and the Perception of Risk
  • Chapter 4. Seropositivity Self-Disclosure and Concealment
  • Chapter 5. The Condom Use Project
  • Chapter 6. Romance and Finance
  • Chapter 7. The Psychosocial Benefits of Unsafe Sex
  • Chapter 8. HIV Testing and Wishful Thinking
  • Chapter 9. Self-Disclosure Self-Described
  • Chapter 10. Circumventing Denial
  • Appendix A: Interviewee Profiles
  • Appendix B: Further Quantitative Findings
  • References Cited
  • Index

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