Choosing Unsafe Sex: Aids-Risk Denial Among Disadvantaged Women

by Elisa J. Sobo

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812215532
• ISBN13: 9780812215533
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"