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1 online resource (247 pages) |
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Print version record. |
Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: The Politics of Intersectional Stigma for Women with HIV/AIDS; CHAPTER TWO: Women's Narrative Bio-Sketches; CHAPTER THREE: Capturing the Research Journey/Listening to Women's Lives; CHAPTER FOUR: Narratives of Injustice: Discovery of the HIV/AIDS Virus; CHAPTER FIVE: Life Reconstruction and the Development of Nontraditional Political Resources; CHAPTER SIX: Life Reconstruction and Gender; CHAPTER SEVEN: Making Workable Sisterhood Possible: The Multiple Expressions of Political Participation. |
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CHAPTER EIGHT: Looking to the Future: Struggle and Commitment for Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDSAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
Summary |
Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people with HIV? Michele Tracy Berger argues that it is the influence of a phenomenon she labels ""intersectional stigma, "" a complex process by which women of color, already experiencing race, class, and gender oppression, are also labeled, judged, and given inferior treatment because of their st. |
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EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Women with social disabilities -- Political activity -- United States.
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HIV-positive women -- Political activity -- United States.
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Political participation -- United States.
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Marginality, Social -- Social aspects -- United States.
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AIDS (Disease)
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Stigma (Social psychology)
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AIDS (Disease) (OCoLC)fst00793808
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Political participation. (OCoLC)fst01069386
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Stigma (Social psychology) (OCoLC)fst01133365
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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ISBN |
0691118531 |
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9780691118536 |
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0691127700 |
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9780691127705 |
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