Remaking a life : how women living with HIV/AIDS confront inequality /

"In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change--and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantag...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Watkins-Hayes, Celeste (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:
HIV-positive women > United States.
AIDS (Disease) in women > United States.
Equality > Health aspects > United States.
HIV-positive women > Medical care > United States.
AIDS (Disease)
Women.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Women
Séropositives > États-Unis.
Sida chez la femme > États-Unis.
Séropositives > Soins médicaux > États-Unis.
Sida.
Femmes.
women (female humans)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
AIDS (Disease) in women
Equality > Health aspects
HIV-positive women
United States
aids activists.
aids.
chicago.
disease.
dying from aids.
economic.
epidemic.
hiv.
improving the lives of women.
interviews.
multidimensional process.
nonprofit.
physical.
political survival.
radical improvements.
social stigma.
social wellbeing.
social.
uplifting.
women living with aids.
women.
womens transformative projects.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Injuries of inequality and the transformative project
  • When epidemics collide: sexual violence, the drug economy, and the persistence of HIV/AIDS
  • The safety net that AIDS activism built
  • Framing institutions and the emergence of transformative projects
  • The AIDS safety net meets the 'test-and-treat' revolution
  • Telling my story, remaking my womanhood: social, economic, and political restoration
  • Conclusion : Inequality flows through the veins: transformative lessons from the AIDS response.

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