Berger Workable Sisterhood

The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2638-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Michele Tracy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin HIV, AIDS

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Chapter One: The Politics of Intersectional Stigma for Women with HIV/AIDS 1

An Overview of the Story 2

The New "Face" of HIV//AIDS 6

Women's Community Work: Broadening the Definition of What Constitutes Politics 7

Intersectionality 18

Stigma and Marginality 22

Intersectional Stigma 24

Coming Out of the Shadows: Stigmatized Women and Politics 36

Chapter Two: Women's Narrative Bio-Sketches 37

Advocates 38

Activists 50

Helpers 58

Life Lessons 65

Chapter Three: Capturing the Research Journey/Listening to Women's Lives 68

Section One: Finding the Women 68

Section Two: Why Did She Say That?

Creating and Analyzing Oral Narratives 79

Limitations of the Study 85

Chapter Four: Narratives of Injustice: Discovery of the HIV/AIDS Virus 87

Narratives of Injustice 88

Consequences of the Discovery of the HIV/AIDS Virus 99

Intersectional Stigma as a Contributing Factor 102

Chapter Five Life Reconstruction and the Development of Nontraditional Political Resources 105

What Is Life Reconstruction?105

The Role of Resources 106

External Resources 107

Chapter Six: Life Reconstruction and Gender 119

Aspects of Respondents' Gender Identity before HIV//AIDS and Life Reconstruction 119

Redirecting HIV-Stigma Related to Sex Work 121

Sexual Self-(Re)Education and Empowerment 129

Development of a Public Voice: What It Means to Be a Woman with HIV 133

Consequences of Not Developing a Public Voice 139

Chapter Seven: Making Workable Sisterhood Possible: The Multiple Expressions of Political Participation 143

The Women's Distrust of Conventional Politics 143

Blended and Overlapping Roles 150

Narrative Features of Participation 180

Chapter Eight: Looking to the Future: Struggle and Commitment for Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS 186

Collective Stories 186

Policy, Prevention, and Treatment Implications 190

Appendix 193

Notes 195

Bibliography 209

Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

Michele Tracy Berger is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has been a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.