04852nam 2200781 a 450 991017221480332120200520144314.01-282-66573-197866126657381-4008-2638-110.1515/9781400826384(CKB)2670000000034753(EBL)617509(OCoLC)699474730(SSID)ssj0000409534(PQKBManifestationID)11278995(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409534(PQKBWorkID)10347591(PQKB)10127849(SSID)ssj0001483206(PQKBManifestationID)12611900(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001483206(PQKBWorkID)11428623(PQKB)11461418(MiAaPQ)EBC617509(OCoLC)680616254(MdBmJHUP)muse36297(DE-B1597)446472(OCoLC)979725757(DE-B1597)9781400826384(EXLCZ)99267000000003475320031003d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWorkable sisterhood the political journey of stigmatized women with HIV/AIDS /Michele Tracy BergerCourse BookPrinceton Princeton University Pressc20041 online resource (247 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-11853-1 0-691-12770-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-224) and index.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 --IndexWorkable 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.Women with social disabilitiesPolitical activityUnited StatesHIV-positive womenPolitical activityUnited StatesPolitical participationUnited StatesMarginality, SocialUnited StatesAIDS (Disease)Social aspectsUnited StatesStigma (Social psychology)Women with social disabilitiesPolitical activityHIV-positive womenPolitical activityPolitical participationMarginality, SocialAIDS (Disease)Social aspectsStigma (Social psychology)362.83/0973Berger Michele Tracy1968-855900MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910172214803321Workable Sisterhood1910966UNINA