LEADER 00000cam 2200541Ki 4500 001 ocn994396216 003 OCoLC 005 20190811035034.2 006 m o d 007 cr |n|---||||| 008 130729s2010 nju o 000 0 eng d 020 0691118531 020 9780691118536 020 0691127700 020 9780691127705 035 (OCoLC)994396216 040 XFH|beng|cXFH|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dOCLCF 043 n-us--- 049 STJJ 050 4 HQ1236.5.U6 B495 2006 082 04 362.83/0973 100 1 Berger, Michele Tracy,|d1968- 245 10 Workable Sisterhood :|bthe Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS. 264 1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c2010. 300 1 online resource (247 pages) 336 text|btxt 337 computer|bc 338 online resource|bcr 505 0 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. 505 8 CHAPTER EIGHT: Looking to the Future: Struggle and Commitment for Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDSAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 520 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. 546 English. 588 0 Print version record. 590 EBSCOhost|bSocINDEX with Full Text 650 0 Women with social disabilities|xPolitical activity|zUnited States. 650 0 HIV-positive women|xPolitical activity|zUnited States. 650 0 Political participation|zUnited States. 650 0 Marginality, Social|xSocial aspects|zUnited States. 650 0 AIDS (Disease) 650 0 Stigma (Social psychology) 650 7 AIDS (Disease)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00793808 650 7 Political participation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01069386 650 7 Stigma (Social psychology)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01133365 651 7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 914 ocn994396216 994 92|bSTJ
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