In Her Hands (eBook)

Women's Fight against AIDS in the United States

Emma Day (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
362 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38907-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In Her Hands examines the various strategies women have utilized to fight for recognition as individuals vulnerable to and living with HIV/AIDS across multiple settings since the 1980s. Taking a new chronological and thematic approach to the study of the US epidemic, it explores five arenas of women’s AIDS activism: transmission and recognition, reproductive justice, safer sex campaigns for queer women, the carceral state, and HIV prevention and treatment. In so doing, it moves the historical understanding of women’s experiences of AIDS beyond their exclusion from the initial medical response and the role women played as the supporters of gay men. Asking how and on what terms women succeeded in securing state support, In Her Hands argues that women protesting the neglect of their health-care needs always risked encountering punitive intervention on behalf of the symbolic needs of fetuses and children – as well as wider society – deemed to need protecting from them.
 

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
Abbreviations 

Introduction 
1. AIDS Is a Disaster, Women Die Faster 
2. Testing Women 
3. Women’s Fight for Safer Sex 
4. Murder by Proxy 
5. The Fight to End AIDS 
Epilogue 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Charles Everett Koop • criminalization • Health • history of women's activism • HIVAIDS epidemic • lesbian feminists • LGBTQ • media • Prison • reproductive justice • Risk Group • Safer Sex • Shumate v Wilson • Social Movements • state neglect • STDs • stereotypes • Stigma • tough-on-crime
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38907-7 / 0520389077
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38907-6 / 9780520389076