Women, Families and HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America
Carole Campbell examines the position of women in the AIDS epidemic (women living with HIV, and women caring for HIV-infected family members) in a sociocultural context. Campbell draws a connection among women’s risk of AIDS, gender roles (particularly adolescent gender role socialization), and male sexual behavior, demonstrating that efforts to contain the spread of the disease to females must also target the male behavior that puts women at risk. This study concl… More >>
Women, Families and HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America
Topic: aids, aids epidemic, gender role socialization, hiv, hiv aids, living with hiv, male sexual behavior, sociological perspective