AIDS

Presents an overview of the important issues raised for feminist theory and practice by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and outlines the direction in which feminist debates about the subject are developing. The essays discuss medical issues; the social and political impact of HIV/AIDS on women and more.

Jennie Naidoo, Lesley Doyal, Tamsin Wilton

HIV and AIDS - putting women on the global agenda, Lesley Doyal; AIDS - Issues For Feminism In The UK, Diane Richardson; Feminism And The Erotics of health promotion, Tasmin Wilton; visible and invisible women in AIDS discourses, Jenny Kitzinger; AIDS as a male disease - implications for women's mental health needs, Sally Dowling; feminists, prostitutes and  HIV, Kate Butcher; against all odds - HIV and safer sex education for women with learning difficulties, Michelle McCarthy.