03541nam 2200697 a 450 991077897400332120211015015620.01-283-21085-197866132108520-8122-0037-30-585-12731-X10.9783/9780812200379(CKB)111004368590040(OCoLC)654729048(MdBmJHUP)muse3214(DE-B1597)448895(OCoLC)979833815(DE-B1597)9780812200379(Au-PeEL)EBL3441553(CaPaEBR)ebr10492010(CaONFJC)MIL321085(OCoLC)44956187(MiAaPQ)EBC3441553(EXLCZ)9911100436859004019950828d1995 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierChoosing unsafe sex[electronic resource] AIDS-risk denial among disadvantaged women /Elisa J. SoboPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Press1995ix, 232 p0-8122-1553-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-226) and index.Front matter --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 --IndexChoosing 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 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. 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, whom they saw as quite likely to be involved with sexually unfaithful men, use them.Women with social disabilitiesSexual behaviorUnited StatesSexual healthUnited StatesUnsafe sexUnited StatesSafe sex in AIDS preventionUnited StatesSexual behavior surveysUnited StatesAIDS (Disease) in womenUnited StatesCaregiving.Health.Medicine.Women with social disabilitiesSexual behaviorSexual healthUnsafe sexSafe sex in AIDS preventionSexual behavior surveysAIDS (Disease) in women613.9/54Sobo Elisa Janine1963-934941MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778974003321Choosing unsafe sex3851603UNINA