LEADER 04852nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910172214803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-66573-1 010 $a9786612665738 010 $a1-4008-2638-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826384 035 $a(CKB)2670000000034753 035 $a(EBL)617509 035 $a(OCoLC)699474730 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000409534 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11278995 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409534 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10347591 035 $a(PQKB)10127849 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001483206 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12611900 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001483206 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11428623 035 $a(PQKB)11461418 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617509 035 $a(OCoLC)680616254 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36297 035 $a(DE-B1597)446472 035 $a(OCoLC)979725757 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826384 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000034753 100 $a20031003d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWorkable sisterhood $ethe political journey of stigmatized women with HIV/AIDS /$fMichele Tracy Berger 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (247 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-11853-1 311 $a0-691-12770-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-224) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter 1. The Politics of Intersectional Stigma for Women with HIV/AIDS --$tChapter 2. Women's Narrative Bio-Sketches --$tChapter 3. Capturing the Research Journey/ Listening to Women's Lives --$tChapter 4. Narratives of Injustice: Discovery of the HIV/AIDS Virus --$tChapter 5. Life Reconstruction and the Development of Nontraditional Political Resources --$tChapter 6. Life Reconstruction and Gender --$tChapter 7. Making Workable Sisterhood Possible: The Multiple Expressions of Political Participation --$tChapter 8. Looking to the Future: Struggle and Commitment for Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS --$tAppendix --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWorkable 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. 606 $aWomen with social disabilities$xPolitical activity$zUnited States 606 $aHIV-positive women$xPolitical activity$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical participation$zUnited States 606 $aMarginality, Social$zUnited States 606 $aAIDS (Disease)$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aStigma (Social psychology) 615 0$aWomen with social disabilities$xPolitical activity 615 0$aHIV-positive women$xPolitical activity 615 0$aPolitical participation 615 0$aMarginality, Social 615 0$aAIDS (Disease)$xSocial aspects 615 0$aStigma (Social psychology) 676 $a362.83/0973 700 $aBerger$b Michele Tracy$f1968-$0855900 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910172214803321 996 $aWorkable Sisterhood$91910966 997 $aUNINA