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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Publisher
University of California PressYear
2019Print ISBN
9780520296039
Edition
1eBook ISBN
9780520968738
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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
- Cover
- Remaking a Life
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Key Abbreviations
- Introduction. Injuries of Inequality and the Transformative Project
- 1. Dying From: Sexual Violence, the Drug Economy, and the Persistence of HIV/AIDS
- 2. The Safety Net that AIDS Activism Built
- 3. Living With: The Emergence of Transformative Projects
- 4. The HIV/AIDS Safety Net Meets the Test-and-Treat Revolution
- 5. Thriving Despite: Social, Economic, and Political Restoration
- Conclusion. Inequality Flows through the Veins: Transformative Lessons from the HIV/AIDS Response
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A. Methods of Research
- Appendix B. Health, Hardship, and Renewal Respondents
- Notes
- Index
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