ANTC68H3 Chapter Notes -Scapegoating, Promiscuity, Anal Sex
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Week #8: invisible women class, gender and hiv by farmer 1999b. Aids was first recognized as a clinical syndrome in 1981 summer. Physicians in california and new york noted clusters of unusual infections and cancers in their patients, almost all were young gay men called grids. People impacted by aids injection drug users, among hemophiliacs, and some of their sexual partners, poor men and women. Intensity of public awareness and fear of aids has led to many myths and misunderstandings. At first, the rugged vagina was seen as unable to be susceptible to aids unlike the vulnerable anus moralistic reasons as to not practice anal intercourse. Aids was soon the number one killer of heterosexual women yet the voice of women with aids was absent from scientific and popular commentary. Majority of women with aids had been robbed of their voice long before hiv appeared to further complicate their lives, they have elitism, racism and sexism.
