Vamps, Virgins and Victims

Download or read book Vamps, Virgins and Victims written by Robin Gorna and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorna analyzes how familiar generalizations about AIDS deny the complex ways in which AIDS affects women's lives. She demonstrates how media representations often reproduce prejudices about women, intensifying fears around female sexuality. Statistical evidence is marshalled to reveal the concealed growth in women infected with HIV. Gorna takes to task scientists who have neglected the different impacts HIV has on women's bodies. She also reviews the facts about how a woman can acquire HIV and how it can be transmitted from a woman to her sexual partners or to her infant.