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 disadvantage. Draw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Watkins-Hayes, Celeste (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : 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. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology. HIV Infections > epidemiology. Women. Socioeconomic Factors. United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Injuries of inequality and the transformative project
Dying from: sexual violence, the drug economy, and the persistence of HIV/AIDS
The safety net that AIDS activism built
Living with: the emergence of transformative projects
The HIV/AIDS safety net meets the test-and-treat revolution
Thriving despite: social, economic, and political restoration
Conclusion : Inequality flows through the veins: transformative lessons from the HIV/AIDS response.