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Choosing unsafe sex :

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0812215532

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081223314X

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Choosing unsafe sex :

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[Book]

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AIDS-risk denial among disadvantaged women /

First Statement of Responsibility

Elisa J. Sobo

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 232 pages ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-226) and index

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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. It also discusses the related issue of seropositivity concealment or non-disclosure. Many of the inner-city women who participated in Dr. Sobo's research were seriously involved with one man, and they had heavy emotional and social investments in believing or maintaining that their partners were faithful to them. Uninvolved women had similarly heavy investments in their abilities to identify or choose potential partners who were HIV-negative. In either case, women sought to present and to view themselves as wise and their men as monogamous. Women did not see themselves as being at risk for HIV infection, and so they saw no need for condoms. But they did recommend that other women use them; they saw other women as quite likely to be involved with sexually unfaithful men. Choosing Unsafe Sex includes recommendations for educational strategies that are sensitive to cultural expectations for relationships. Dr. Sobo's findings have significance not only for inner-city HIV/AIDS educators but for all who seek a deeper understanding of mainstream assumptions about heterosexual relationships

Title

Choosing unsafe sex.

AIDS (Disease) in women-- United States

Safe sex in AIDS prevention-- United States

Sexual behavior surveys-- United States

Sexual health-- United States

Unsafe sex-- United States

Women with social disabilities-- Sexual behavior-- United States

Condoms-- utilization-- United States

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice-- United States

HIV Infections-- prevention & control-- United States

Risk-Taking-- United States

Sexual Behavior-- United States

Women-- United States

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Sobo, Elisa Janine,1963-

Date of Transaction

20160712061312.0

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