Remaking a Life
eBook - PDF

Remaking a Life

How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Remaking a Life

How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

About this book

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. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago-based women living with HIV/AIDS, Celeste Watkins-Hayes takes readers on an uplifting journey through women's transformative projects, a multidimensional process in which women shift their approach to their physical, social, economic, and political survival, thereby changing their viewpoint of "dying from" AIDS to "living with" it. With an eye towards improving the lives of women, Remaking a Life provides techniques to encourage private, nonprofit, and government agencies to successfully collaborate, and shares policy ideas with the hope of alleviating the injuries of inequality faced by those living with HIV/AIDS everyday.

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considerably 
greater 
power. 
They 
sought 
out 
support 
structures 
to 
combat 
their 
invisibility 
and 
to 
help 
them 
navigate 
their 
new 
status. 
Some 
of 
the 
most 
economically, 
physically, 
and 
emotionally 
distressed 
women 
sought 
new 
outlets 
for 
survival 
outside 
of 
the 
sexualized 
drug 
economy. 
Many 
discovered 
they 
could 
save 
themselves 
and 
remake 
their 
lives 
by 
replacing 
one 
set 
of 
networks 
with 
another, 
networks 
that 
offered 
life 
instead 
of 
death, 
promise 
and 
opportunity 
instead 
of 
degradation 
and 
violence. 
What 
greeted 
the 
women 
was 
the 
HIV 
safety 
net, 
a 
billion-dollar 
infra-
structure 
of 
public 
policy, 
institutions, 
networks, 
and 
a 
culture 
that 
would 
prove 
highly 
effective 
at 
presenting 
an 
alternative 
to 
dying 
from.
In 
the 
next 
chapter, 
we 
consider 
how 
this 
life 
force, 
the 
HIV 
safety 
net, 
emerged 
out 
of 
the 
shadows 
of 
an 
epidemic 
to 
transform 
dying 
from
to 
living 
with
.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Remaking a Life
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. List of Key Abbreviations
  9. Introduction. Injuries of Inequality and the Transformative Project
  10. 1. Dying From: Sexual Violence, the Drug Economy, and the Persistence of HIV/AIDS
  11. 2. The Safety Net that AIDS Activism Built
  12. 3. Living With: The Emergence of Transformative Projects
  13. 4. The HIV/AIDS Safety Net Meets the Test-and-Treat Revolution
  14. 5. Thriving Despite: Social, Economic, and Political Restoration
  15. Conclusion. Inequality Flows through the Veins: Transformative Lessons from the HIV/AIDS Response
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Appendix A. Methods of Research
  18. Appendix B. Health, Hardship, and Renewal Respondents
  19. Notes
  20. Index