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Book Review: Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American politics

Many of the problems that Patton explores in the context of the AIDS/HIV pandemic are similar to those in other global programmes on women's health, namely poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and inadequate access to family planning services. Moreover, as in the case of AIDS/HIV policies, government programmes which address the social, physical and mental health of women often do so only in terms off uture mothers. Unlike Patton, such programmes do not necessarily have women's autonomy and equality in mind. In her chapter on women's global health programmes and on planning for women around the world, however, Patton's commitment translates less successfully. These chapters read very much like a checklist for policy implementation. Because of her experience as an AIDS/HIV activist in the US, she depends on the experience of oppositional communities there, whereas concrete accounts of local experience and organising in Third World countries have disappeared. These accounts need to be documented and circulated. With the increasing attack on social services all over the world, such organising and networks may soon be the only answer.