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Abstract:In an era of waning public funding and growing assumptions within the academy that gender has been integrated into curricula, Women's Studies Programs work under the monitoring eye of a corporate model of budget-slicing, bureaucratic, audit-culture accountability. Programs come under increasing assault on the grounds of obsolescence and cost-effectiveness. This article documents the institutional setting of a Women's Studies Program under threat and traces how program faculty have attempted to counter antifeminist obsolescence and individualist rhetoric, using as an example the struggle over institutional sexual harassment policy and its successor at the authors' state university. In participating in re-writing policy, the authors discovered possibilities and blockades in professors' and students' attempts to position the Program as more than a curricular remedy. We reveal the limitations of valuing departments solely on quantitative grounds and insist that feminist work in transforming academic culture is far from complete.

This article examines how land use ideology and popular images of farmworkers contribute to the housing crisis for Mexican farmworkers in Fresno County, California. Despite the desperate need for affordable housing in the rural areas of Fresno County, local policy makers either have failed to aid or have actively discouraged attempts to increase the stock of affordable housing. Through an ethnographic examination of public policy decision making about residential construction on the west side of Fresno County, I document how public officials make policy decisions based on both a land use ideology that rationalizes governmental failure to serve Mexicans working in the agriculture industry and portraits of farmworkers and farmworker families that reflect stereotypes and nationally relevant population characteristics rather than regionally specific realities. This ideology and these stereotypical profiles operate to render invisible portions of the Mexican farmworker population who have been working in the area for decades and diminish affordable housing opportunities.

BackgroundTreatment as Prevention (TasP) is an effective intervention to prevent the onward transmission of HIV by lowering viral loads in HIV seropositive patients. In view of the high rates of new HIV diagnoses globally in young people, the benefits of TasP as a HIV prevention strategy could be immense. However, the intervention is not a straighforward HIV prevention strategy; there are many practical and ethical implications to be considered before it should be universally recommended. We know that HIV-positive young people (aged 16–29 years) have poor condom use, low rates of disclosure, and chaotic drug adherence patterns. How will TasP affect these other HIV prevention behaviours? Such young people who are already on treatment can give an invaluable insight into many elements of TasP that need to be considered before it is universally adopted as a HIV prevention strategy. The purpose of this survey is to determine understanding and perception of TasP by vertically infected HIV-positive young people.