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frage did not improve women's lives as much
as she had hoped.
"It is still a man's world," she wrote. "The
vote did not bring us either full emancipation
or full opportunity."
Like other women reformers of her era,
Baker never married and instead preferred
female companions — although she was
always circumspect about the nature of these
relationships. Baker shared an apartment in
New York City with Ida Alexa Ross Wylie (bet-
ter known as I.A.R. Wylie), an acclaimed
Australian author whose books were made
into several well-known movies, including the
1942 Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn film,
Keeper of the Flame. Although Baker presented a
mannish appearance, Wylie maintained in her
autobiography that she herself assumed the
ADDITIONAL READING
Baker, S. Josephine. 1939, 1980. _Fighting for
Life_ (Krieger Publishing).
Schwartz, Judith. 1986. _Radical Feminists of
Heterodoxy: Greenwich Village, 1912-1940_
(New Victoria).
Wylie, I.A.R. 1940. _My Life with George: An
Unconventional Autobiography. (Random House).
masculine role in their relationship. Describing
a 1934 visit from Baker and Wylie, Lady Una
Troubridge, partner of Well of Loneliness author
Radcylffe Hall, wrote that Wylie's promiscuity
and "thoughtless sexual selfishness" made
Baker miserable — although this interpreta-
tion may have reflected Troubridge's own
unhappiness over Hall's affairs.
After her retirement from the city' health
department, Baker continued to teach and
write about children's health. She served as
president of the American Child Health
Association and later represented the United
States on children's health issues at the League
of Nations. In her later years Baker lived with
Wylie and Dr. Louise Pearce, a researcher who
helped discover a cure for sleeping sickness,
on a farm near Princeton, N.J. While Wylie was
emotionally involved with both Baker and
Pearce, it is unclear what relationship the two
doctors had with each other. Pearce and
Wylie's partnership continued after Baker's
death in 1945. ▼
Liz Highleyman is a freelance writer and editor
who has written widely on health, sexuality and
politics. E-mail her at PastOut@black-rose.com.
AIDS leaders strongly rebuke scientist's claim
LONDON — A controversial claim that a
small number of disaffected gay men in
London are deliberately setting out to infect
themselves with HIV has prompted an angry
response from AIDS leaders.
Dr. Melissa Parker, a medical anthropolo-
gist at London's Brunei University', bases her
claim on anecdotal evidence from members of
tire capital's gay community.
She says the men believe that by contract-
ing the virus they will receive the sense of
belonging that they crave.
The men frequent "backrooms" at gay
clubs, bars and saunas in London where they
have unprotected sex, she says.
AIDS groups say the claim, made at the
British Association Festival of Science at the
University of Salford in northern England, is
unscientific and unhelpful.
Will Nutland of Gay Men's Health
Promotion at the Higgins Trust, said: "Dr:
Parker has admitted that she has no figures to
support her claims and her assumptions will
only serve to further demonize gay men.
"Her comment that unprotected sex with
multiple partners is 'the rule, rather than the
exception’ is not backed up by evidence.
"Ongoing surveys of gay men's sexual
behavior since 1997 show that most men use
condoms most of the time with most of their
partners.
"While it is true that levels of unprotected
sex have increased, there is no evidence to sug-
gest that gay men do not think that HIV is any
longer a serious medical condition.
"Eighty-five percent of men surveyed in
the 2001 Gay Men's Sex Survey said that they
would not be willing to risk HTV transmission
than use a condom." T
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