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Books on: aids and women

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AIDS: Women, Drugs, and Social Care

Book by Nicholas Dorn, Sheila Henderson, Nigel South; Falmer Press, 1992

Subjects:

Aids (Disease)--Great Britain, Women--Diseases--Great Britain, Women--Drug Use--Great Britain

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...saw some revival of flagging AIDS coverage in popular magazines...HIV posts with some remit for women, and conferences and meetings on the topic of women and AIDS. Weary readers of the Evening...greeted in May by the headline AIDS: Women in the Front Line...
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Women Take Care: Gender, Race and the Culture of AIDS

Book by Katie Hogan; Cornell University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Aids (Disease) And The Arts, Aids (Disease) In Women, Aids (Disease)--Patients--Care--United States, Sex Discrimination Against Women--Health Aspects--United States, Sex Role

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...Transforming Bad Women into Good Woman as innately maternal and nurturing...positioned as the opposite of woman as sexually alluring, predatory...interlocked. In the context of AIDS, women can easily switch from signifying...signifying abjection. Good woman symbolizes all that is threatened...
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Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/AIDS

Book by Patti Lather, Chris Smithies; Westview Press, 1997

Subjects:

Aids (Disease) In Women--Sex Factors

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...cases, but increasing for women. Among persons 25 to 44 years old, AIDS is the leading cause of...the reported cases of women with AIDS in the US is from IV drug...for over half of all US women with AIDS. Hispanics/Latinos...
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Choosing Unsafe Sex: AIDS-Risk Denial among Disadvantaged Women

Book by Elisa J. Sobo; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995

Subjects:

Hygiene, Sexual--United States, Safe Sex In Aids Prevention--United States, Sexual Behavior Surveys--United States, Socially Handicapped Women--United States--Sexual Behavior

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...infected people. Three-quarters 74.6% of U.S. women with AIDS are members of minority groups. The majority of...population, account for over half of all U.S. women with AIDS. Black women are about sixteen times more likely than white...
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African American Women and HIV/AIDS: Critical Responses

Book by Dorie J. Gilbert, Ednita M. Wright; Praeger, 2003

Subjects:

African American Women--Diseases, Aids (Disease)--United States

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...facing African American women, R. B. Daniel stated several years ago that AIDS is killing us...life circumstances of women, and specifically African...women, living with HIV/AIDS. The number of books addressing women and HIV/AIDS has increased substantially...

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Journal Articles on: aids and women

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Transmitters, Caregivers, and Flowerpots: Rhetorical Constructions of Women's Early Identities in the Aids Pandemic

Journal article by Dacia Charlesworth; Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 26, 2003

Subjects:

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome--AIDS, Brochures, Sex roles, Women

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...ideology by positioning woman as the Other and by omitting...proliferation of HIV/AIDS. Women as Transmitters The identity...discusses whether or not a woman with HIV should become...brochure warns that "A woman with HIV can jeopardize...if pregnant . . ." (Women and AIDS, 1990, p. 1). This...
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Making Women Visible through Health Communication: Representations of Gender in Aids Psas

Journal article by Roger Myrick; Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 22, 1999

Subjects:

AIDS, Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, HIV, Human immunodeficiency virus, Prevention, Public service advertising, Women, Womens studies

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...is a laundromat where a young woman is shown in the background hanging...prevention poster targeting women that reads: "She shows all...foreground, a young man and two women are engaged in conversation: Man: "Ive got a friend whos got AIDS"; Woman # 1: "What? Through shooting...
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Women Living with HIV/AIDS: The Dual Challenge of Being a Patient and Caregiver

Journal article by Kristin L. Hackl, Anton M. Somlai, Jeffrey A. Kelly, Seth C. Kalichman; Health and Social Work, Vol. 22, 1997

Subjects:

AIDS patients--Psychology and mental health, HIV patients--Psychology and mental health, Women--Psychology and mental health

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...citations); and HIV/AIDS information needs (26...were the concerns the women raised most frequently. The women feared disclosing their...societal rejection. One woman indicated that it would...shadow over me." HIV/AIDS Information Needs. The...of these women. The women knew they had HIV, but...about the disease. One woman was told that her pregnancy...
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Women and HIV/AIDS Epidemic: The Issue of College Age Girls' Awareness in Nigeria

Journal article by Solomon O. Momoh, Ailemen I. Moses, Maria M. Ugiomoh; College Student Journal, Vol. 41, 2007

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Health attitudes--Analysis, Health attitudes--Social aspects, Sex--Analysis, Sex--Health aspects, Sexual behavior--Analysis, Sexual behavior--Health aspects, Women college students--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women college students--Health aspects, Women's health--Evaluation, Women--Evaluation, Women--Health aspects

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...are likely to aggravate HIV/AIDS epidemic. Women are faced with...constraint with the inequality of women and men. In fact, high premium...men in Nigeria. From birth women are seen as helping mates to men. In most parts of Nigeria, women are made to be subject to men...rights are not accorded to the woman. She is made to undergo the...
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Creating the Lesbian Mammy: Boys on the Side and the Politics of Aids

Journal article by Katie Hogan; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, 2002

Subjects:

AIDS, Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, Gays & lesbians, Motion picture criticism, Ross, Herbert (Director), Women, Womens studies

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...fact of HIV and AIDS in African American women. Black Woman as Mammy The first...expressed in terms of women and AIDS and a nostalgic...From Angry Black Woman to Feminist Sister...Together the three women bond as they confront...Robins struggle as a woman with AIDS, and Janes encounters...

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Magazine Articles on: aids and women

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Women & Aids: What We Think We Know, What We Don't Know and What We Need to Know

Magazine article by Penni Mitchell; Herizons, Vol. 6, Winter 1993

Subjects:

AIDS, Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, HIV, Human immunodeficiency virus, Prevention, Women

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...want to know exactly what the AIDS test is. If you go to your...tests done on Canadian pregnant women suggests women are now a gestation away from...and Victoria, one pregnant woman in 1,300 tested positive...Montreal, one in 616 pregnant women tested positively. Does this...
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Women & AIDS

Magazine article by Marian Segal; FDA Consumer, Vol. 27, October 1993

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease), Clinical trials--Standards, Disease transmission, Mother and infant--Health aspects, Mother-infant relations--Health aspects, Women's health--Health aspects, Women--Health aspects

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...reports that, "Many women in the United States...and HIV-infected women often remain undiagnosed until the onset of AIDS or until a perinatally...Know Can Hurt You "A woman may not know her sex...director of FDAs Office of AIDS Coordination, "the late diagnosis in women contributed to reports...mens. Its not. If a woman is diagnosed at the same...
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Women and AIDS in South Africa: A Conflicted History Leads to a Dispiriting Present

Magazine article by Alexandra Suich; UN Chronicle, Vol. 43, July 2006

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease) in women--Health aspects, AIDS (Disease)--Health aspects, HIV (Viruses)--Health aspects, HIV--Health aspects, Women--Health aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...about their lifestyle put women at risk for contracting...destructive characteristics of AIDS: stigma. Women who have received anti...antagonism. "There was this woman who, when she tested...the country, where a woman is estimated to be raped...seconds. Violence against women is one of the leading...is unfathomable. As AIDS progresses, family members...
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Women with AIDS, Fastest Rising Category, Are Also Most Invisible

Magazine article by Goody L. Solomon; Insight on the News, Vol. 11, March 13, 1995

Subjects:

AIDS patients--Social aspects, HIV patients--Social aspects, Women--Social aspects

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...covered by the official AIDS definition: pneumonia...inflammatory disease (among women). Women are twice as vulnerable...of HIV Similarly, a woman with a positive Pap smear...are more aggressive in AIDS patients than in the...percent of HIV-positive women experienced recurrence...
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Community Aids Watch: Kenyan Women Lead the Response to Hiv/aids

Magazine article by Kathryn Miele; Women & Environments International Magazine, Fall/Winter 2004

Subjects:

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome--AIDS, Community action, Community service, Kenya, Women

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Community Aids Watch: Kenyan Women Lead the Response to Hiv/aids by Kathryn Miele Kenya is among...communities - in particular grassroots women - is vital to the international response to HIV/AIDS. It is in these places that...

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Newspaper Articles on: aids and women

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AIDS Is Leading Cause of Death, for Women

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 16, 2009

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AIDS (Disease) in women, AIDS (Disease)--Risk factors, News agencies, The Associated Press, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

AIDS Is Leading Cause of Death, for Women. Byline: Associated Press In its first study...the World Health Organization said that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44. Unsafe sex...
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Real Women Test BEAUTY SLEEP AIDS; BEAUTY CONFIDENTIAL

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 2, 2009

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease) in women, Bath products, HIV testing, HIV tests, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Real Women Test BEAUTY SLEEP AIDS; BEAUTY CONFIDENTIAL. Byline: ELSA McALONAN...just dont get enough quality rest. Six real women, all in need of a good nights sleep, put beauty sleep aids to the test. Dr Andrew Weil for Origins, Night...
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Women in Transition Funds Aid Local Women in College

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 10, 2012

Subjects:

Scholarships, Scholarships (Financial aid), Universities and colleges, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Women in Transition Funds Aid Local Women in College. Byline...shoes to symbolize the steps women take as they go through life...whose members are dedicated women throughout McHenry County and...of MCC Foundation. "These women really exemplify what can happen...for a common purpose." "The Woman in Transition scholarship has...
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BEAUTY SLEEP AIDS Real Women Test; Daily Mail, Thursday, July 2, 2009 Page XX Femailmagazine 59 Daily Mail, Thursday, July 2, 2009 BEAUTY CONFIDENTIAL ELSA McALONAN, with Her Team of Experts, Tells You the Truth about the Latest Beauty Products ..

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 2, 2009

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease), Bath products, HIV testing, HIV tests

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

BEAUTY SLEEP AIDS Real Women Test; Daily Mail, Thursday, July 2, 2009 Page...us just dont get enough quality rest. Six real women, all in need of a good nights sleep, put beauty sleep aids to the test. Dr Andrew Weil for Origins, Night...
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Hormones Could Explain Why Women Progress Faster to AIDS

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 14, 2009

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease), Hormones

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Hormones Could Explain Why Women Progress Faster to AIDS. PARIS, July 13, 2009 (AFP) - Scientists...immunodeficiency virus (HIV) advance faster to AIDS than men.One of the enigmas about the AIDS pandemic is why women, after infection with...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: aids and women

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Aids , in Medicine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...license to promiscuity and immoral behaviors. Bibliography See S. Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors (1989); S. Flanders, AIDS (1991); G. Corea, The Story of Women and AIDS (1992), publications of Gay Mens Health Crisis, the National Institute...
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Drug Addiction and Drug Abuse

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...increases the risk of contracting AIDS and some types of hepatitis . In...also puts them at a higher risk of AIDS and other sexually transmitted...alcohol during pregnancy. Pregnant women who acquire the AIDS virus through intravenous drug...
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Birth Control

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS , has become a frequently used birth control device. Contraceptive methods for women include the rhythm method abstinence around...local authorities have typically intimated women pregnant into aborting a second pregnancy...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to his love tragedies, which emphasize women characters and psychological motivation...that explored the lives of minorities and women. Beginning with Lorraine Hansberry s A...into the next century. Feminist and other women-centered themes dramatized by contemporary...
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Censorship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...schools was highly controversial; more recently, the question of AIDS education has stirred debate. In the 1980s, some feminists attempted to ban pornography as injurious to women. Other activists, concerned with racism and other forms of bigotry...

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