Women Take Care: Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS
ISBN: 9781501725685
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



Self-sacrificing mothers and forgiving wives, caretaking lesbians, and vigilant maternal surrogates--these "good women" are all familiar figures in the visual and print culture relating to AIDS. In a probing critique of that culture, Katie Hogan...


Katie Hogan is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Carlow University in Pittsburgh. She is coeditor of Gendered Epidemic: Representation of Women in the Age of AIDS .

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