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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]
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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.