Choosing Unsafe Sex focuses on the ways in which condom refusal and beliefs regarding HIV testing reflect women's hopes for their relationships and their desires to preserve status and self-esteem. Many of the inner-city women who participated in Dr. Sobo's research were seriously involved with one man, and they had heavy emotional and social investments in believing or maintaining that their partners were faithful to them.
Uninvolved women had similarly heavy investments in their abilities to identify or choose potential partners who were HIV-negative. Women did not see themselves as being at risk for HIV infection, and so they saw no need for condoms. But they did recommend that other women, whom they saw as quite likely to be involved with sexually unfaithful men, use them...

PREFACE
The catalyst for this study was a very simple observation. Thumbing through the pages of antebellum statutory codes from some of the southern states, I was surprised to find that chapters on the law of what was called "domestic relations" often included not only the headings "husband and wife," "parent and child," and "guardian and ward," but also "master and slave.'' 1 As I puzzled over the meaning of this arrangement, it struck me that southern lawmakers had organized the statutes in this fashion because they did not consider these sets of social relations as isolated categories but as intrinsically connected. If this was so, then these connections deserved a closer look. What was the impact of slavery, I wondered, on the rules and regulations governing relations between husbands and wives as well as between parents and children? What changes did the end of slavery bring about in the law of domestic relations? How did the legacy of slavery continue to shape legal attitudes toward women, children, and families after its demise?

Women in public office are often assumed to "make a difference" for women, as women?in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their male counterparts. But is sex really an accurate predictor of a legislator's political choices and actions? In this book, Beth Reingold compares the representational activities and attitudes of male and female members of the Arizona and California state legislatures to illuminate the broader implications of the election and integration of women into public office. In the process, she challenges many of the assumptions that underlie popular expectations of women and men in politics.
Using in-depth interviews, survey responses, and legislative records, Reingold actually uncovers more similarities between female and male politicians than differences. Moreover, the stories she presents strongly suggest that rather than assuming that who our representatives are determines what they will do in office, we must acknowledge the possibility that the influence of gender on legislative behavior can be weakened, distorted, or accentuated by powerful forces within the social and political contexts of elective office.

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