Research Catalog

Title

• Lesbian women and sexual health : the social construction of risk and susceptibility / Kathleen A. Dolan.

Author

Dolan, Kathleen A., 1968-

Publication

New York : Haworth Press, c2005.

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Details

Description

xv, 122 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Many lesbian women know they're at risk, yet somehow feel safe enough to behave as if there is no reason to practice safe sex. This book examines how lesbian women perceive their level of risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It shows how their perceptions of risk and susceptibility are shaped by factors such as sexual identity, cultural themes, and community knowledge - and how those perceptions impact on the very real HIV/STI risks that lesbian women face. Lesbian Women and Sexual Health includes tables and figures that make complex data easy to access and understand."--Jacket.

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) > Risk factors
• Data Collection
• Homosexuality, Female
• Lesbians > Health and hygiene
• Lesbians > Sexual behavior
• Risk
• Safe sex in AIDS prevention
• Sexual Health
• Sexual health
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases > transmission
• Sexually transmitted diseases > Risk factors
• Women's Health

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-119) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Background -- Issues of identity and action -- Constructions of risk and protection -- Risk and protection -- Discussion -- Qualitative respondents' characteristics.

ISBN

• 0789024780 (hard : alk. paper)
• 0789024799 (soft : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004021699

OCLC

56559298

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library