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Theory in the Bedroom: A Report from the Macquarie University AIDS and Heterosexuality Project
Author(s) -
Waldby Cathy,
Kippax Susan,
Crawford June
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1990.tb00882.x
Subject(s) - heterosexuality , mainstream , sociology , population , gender studies , politics , project commissioning , bedroom , human sexuality , representation (politics) , public relations , publishing , political science , law , engineering , demography , civil engineering
The political and social questions raised by AIDS/HIV are particularly complex ones, concerned as they are with changing the sexual practices of both the heterosexual and the homosexual population. In many ways these questions have tested the limits of orthodox policy‐making processes. The Macquarie University ‘AIDS and Heterosexuality’ project is one of a small number of research projects which have attempted both to analyse critically existing AIDS policy assumptions and to provide alternative conceptual methods for understanding the processes of changing sexual practices. The Macquarie University project is particularly concerned with the way that women have been represented within mainstream policy: this paper describes this representation and presents some alternative suggestions for understanding the place of women in preventing transmission within the heterosexual population.