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In an original and stimulating analysis of gender and AIDS, Tamsin Wilton assesses safer sex health promotion and health education discourse, and considers their unintended consequences for the cultural construction of gender and sexuality. Taking a queer/feminist constructionist position, she links issues of power, gender, sexuality and nationalism to offer a sound theoretical foundation for an effective and radical HIV/AIDS health promotion strategy.
EnGendering AIDS draws on safer sex materials from the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Scandinavia, and sets current practice against the historical context of VD/STD education, dissecting the role played by STDs in the cultural construction of gender. Wilton debates the meanings that erotic minorities read into bodies and desires, and how these have been transformed by AIDS, and suggests a new model of pornography that disengages the sexually explicit and/or erotically arousing from gendered power relations.
List of contents
Introduction
A Note on Terminology
Sex, Texts, Power
A Sexed and Gendered Desire
Obstacles to Sexual Safety
Look after Yourself
HIV/AIDS Health Education and Promotion
Queen of the Fountain of Love
Gender, Disease and Death
Whatever Turns You On
Safer Sex Promotion
Nowhere Man
Representation, Resistance and Community
Action = Life
About the author
Tamsin Wilton is Senior Lecturer in Health and Policy Studies at the University of the West of England. Her recent publications include Finger-Licking Good: The Ins and Outs of Lesbian Sex (1996), and Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda (1995).
Summary
In a stimulating analysis of gender and AIDS, Wilton assesses safer sex health promotion and health education discourse, and considers their consequences for the construction of gender and sexuality. She links issues of power, gender, sexuality and nationalism to offer a theoretical foundation for an effective HIV/AIDS health promotion strategy.
