Workable Sisterhood : The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS / / Michele Tracy Berger

• Record Nr.: UNISA996206210503316
• Autore: Berger Michele Tracy <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-282-66573-1; 9786612665738; 1-4008-2638-1
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.83/0973
• Soggetti: Stigma (Social psychology); AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects - United States; Marginality, Social - United States; Political participation - United States; HIV-positive women - Political activity - United States; Women with social disabilities - Political activity - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Politics of Intersectional Stigma for Women with HIV/AIDS -- Chapter 2. Women's Narrative Bio-Sketches -- Chapter 3. Capturing the Research Journey/ Listening to Women's Lives -- Chapter 4. Narratives of Injustice: Discovery of the HIV/AIDS Virus -- Chapter 5. Life Reconstruction and the Development of Nontraditional Political Resources -- Chapter 6. Life Reconstruction and Gender -- Chapter 7. Making Workable Sisterhood Possible: The Multiple Expressions of Political Participation -- Chapter 8. Looking to the Future: Struggle and Commitment for Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 status as drug users, sex workers, and HIV-positive women. The work explores the barriers of stigma in relation to political participation, and demonstrates how stigma can be effectively challenged and redirected. The majority of the women in Berger's book are women of color, in particular African Americans and Latinas. The study elaborates the process by which these women have become conscious of their social position as HIV-positive and politically active as activists, advocates, or helpers. She builds a picture of community-based political participation that challenges popular, medical, and scholarly representations of "crack addicted prostitutes" and HIV-positive women as social problems or victims, rather than as agents of social change. Berger argues that the women's development of a political identity is directly related to a process called "life reconstruction." This process includes substance- abuse treatment, the recognition of gender as a salient factor in their lives, and the use of nontraditional political resources.

Twelver Shiism : Unity and Diversity in the Life of Islam, 632 to 1722 / / Andrew J. Newman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789038703321
• Autore: Newman Andrew J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-7486-3331-6; 0-7486-3190-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Collana: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys
• Disciplina: 297.8209
• Soggetti: Shåi°ah - History; Shåi°ah - Doctrines - History; Imams (Shiites)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Shiism fragmented: the faith and the faithful from the seventh to the ninth century ; CHAPTER 2 Bereft of a leader: The early traditionists and the beginnings of doctrine and practice ; CHAPTER 3 The challenge of 'the Uncertainty' ; CHAPTER 4 Majority and minority: rationalism on the defensive in the later Buyid period ; CHAPTER 5 Betwixt and between: the Twelvers and the Turks ; CHAPTER 6 The Mongol and Ilkhanid periods: the rise and limits of the school of al-Hilla ; CHAPTER 7 The severest of challenges; CHAPTER 8 Shiism in the sixteenth century: the limits of power (and influence) CHAPTER 9 The past rediscovered and the future assured: Shiism in the seventeenth century ; Epilogue; Appendix I Scholars by region: fifth-twelfth Islamic centuries/eleventh-eighteenth centuries ad* ; Appendix II Manuscript copies of key Twelver Shii written works, sixth-thirteenth Islamic centuries/twelfth-nineteenth centuries ad*; Appendix III Selected Safavid period rijal works* ; Appendix IV Shuruh/Hawashi of key Twelver works, sixth-twelfth Islamic centuries/twelfth-eighteenth centuries ad*; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: As many as 40 different Shi`i groups existed in the 9th and 10th ; centuries yet only 3 forms have survived. Why is Twelver Shi`ism one of themAs the established faith in modern Iran, the majority faith in Iraq and areas in the Gulf and with its adherents forming sizeable minorities elsewhere in the region, Twelver Shi'ism is arguably the most successful branch of Shi'ism. Andrew J. Newman chronicles the progression of Twelver Shiism, exploring the numerous external challenges and internal disagreements that marked the lives of believers in pockets across the Middle East to the early 18th century. During this time, from the 13th to the 15th century especially, with scholarly activity and the availability of earlier key texts of the faith limited, the region's many millenarian doctrines and movements threatened its demise. Only by the late 17th century was Twelver Shiism's survival assured, both in Iran and elsewhere in the region.