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By R Dennis Shelby,Desiree Ciambrone

ISBN-10: 0789017571

ISBN-13: 9780789017574

ISBN-10: 078901758X

ISBN-13: 9780789017581

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Women's stories with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the influence of HIV/AIDS on ladies, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected inhabitants of the USA. according to interviews with HIV-infected ladies, the publication supplies voice to their studies. This robust textual content bargains a firsthand view of what it really is prefer to stay daily as a girl with the additional burden of HIV/AIDS.

Women's reports with HIV/AIDS is a robust and compelling examine the daily struggles of 37 ladies contaminated with HIV. Their tales aspect their ongoing efforts—with various levels of success—to come to grips with the ailment as they fight to rebuild their lives. via qualitative research, the ebook demonstrates the significance of relational assets, akin to AIDS activism, aid teams, and social aid. It additionally addresses strength difficulties for ladies linked to caregiving and provides ethnographic learn findings at the advanced components that have an effect on girls with HIV (socioeconomic prestige, sexual choice, way of life differences).

Women's reports with HIV/AIDS additionally addresses examine themes akin to:

  • how HIV an infection impacts a woman's experience of self
  • how ladies fix disruption and restoration identities
  • the bounds to women's coping suggestions and no matter if these suggestions nonetheless paintings if girls develop into functionally impaired or boost AIDS
  • how women's structural and social environments facilitate or bog down fix
  • the function of women's casual networks in organic disruption and repair

A infrequent examine the adventure of girls contaminated with HIV (most reviews concentrate on male samples), Women's reports with HIV/AIDS is a useful educational source as a path complement within the fields of scientific sociology, women's stories, public healthiness, and neighborhood future health, and is an enlightening learn for everybody attracted to HIV/AIDS research.

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