Sustaining Safe Sex: Gay Communities Respond to AIDS

by R.W. Connell, June Crawford, G.W. Dowsett, Susan Kippax

Overview

This book focuses on the cultural processes at work within the Australian gay communitites, which have made significant efforts at preventing the spread of the HIV virus. Sustaining Safe Sex has clear relevance to work throughout the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135394738
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/23/2013
Series:	Social Aspects of AIDS
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	231
File size:	680 KB

About the Author

Susan Kippax, R. W. Connell, G. W. Dowsett, June Crawford

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 AIDS in Australia; Chapter 3 The SAPA Project; Chapter 4 Method; Chapter 5 The Picture of Sexuality; Chapter 6 Correlates of Sexual Practice: Safe and Unsafe; Chapter 7 Changes in Response to HIV; Chapter 8 HIV-related Information; Chapter 9 Gay Community Attachment; Chapter 10 Bisexuality: Identity and Practice; Chapter 11 Five Years On …; Chapter 12 Personal Strategies, Collective Responses;

Editorial Reviews

Presents new data on the sexual and social responses to the HIV epidemic, focusing on the cultural processes at work within the Australian gay community. In a country hit early by the HIV epidemic, these communities have made significant efforts at preventing the spread of the virus. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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