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Troubling The Angels Patricia A Lather

Troubling The Angels By Patricia A Lather

Troubling The Angels by Patricia A Lather

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This book explores the cultural meanings and social ramifications of the experiences and understandings of women in the United States, especially poor African American and Latina urban women who live with HIV/AIDS, aiming to educate and inspire women with HIV/AIDS to advocate for themselves.

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Troubling The Angels: Women Living With Hiv/aids by Patricia A Lather

Educator Patti Lather and psychologist Chris Smithies observed and chronicled support groups for women diagnosed with HIV. Whether black, Latina, poor, or middle class, the women in these groups share the common bond of living with HIV/AIDS, and they describe how it affects their lives in terms full of practical reality and moving poignancy, as they fight the disease, accept, reflect, live and die with and in it.

About Patricia A Lather

Patti Lather is associate professor of education and associated women's studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/in the Postmodern.Chris Smithies is a feminist psychologist with a private practice in Columbus, Ohio. Patti Lather is associate professor of education and associated women's studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/in the Postmodern.Chris Smithies is a feminist psychologist with a private practice in Columbus, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Preface 1 The Book -- Preface 2 The Women and the Support Group Meetings -- Life After Diagnosis -- I'm Gonna Die from Stress, Not HIV -- Living with a Time Bomb -- Full Blown AIDS Had Came: Lori -- I Got Another Wake-Up Call: Lina B -- I've Got Some Stories That Would Curl Your Hair -- And I Didn't Even Pay My Income Taxes: Amber -- AIDS and Angels: A Cloudy Place -- Relationships -- The Phony Stuff: You Don't Want to Go Through It Anymore -- I'm Not Close-Mouthed at All: A Daughter -- I Don't Have Fifty Years to Be a Mother: Lisa -- Love and Prayers, Mom: Linda B -- I'm a Sexy Momma -- The Angel of History: AIDS as a Global Crisis -- Making Meaning -- I Don't Know Have to File It Away That This Has Happened to Us -- I'd Probably Be Dead if It Wasn't for HIV -- Angelology: A History of Truths -- Living/Dying with AIDS -- We Are the Teachers -- A Greater Risk of Hope: CR and Linda B -- We Had a Real Nice Life: Louisa -- Death Makes Angels of Us All -- Support Groups -- It's Taken Me Years to Get Here -- We're Supposed to Be a Support Group -- Seize the Day: Lori -- An Ache of Wings: The Social Challenge of AIDS -- Epilogue -- Troubled Reading: Our Bodies, This Book, This Fire -- Demographic Data (At Time of Group Interviews) -- Time to Go Home:Holley

Additional information

GOR008374486
9780813390161
0813390168
Troubling The Angels: Women Living With Hiv/aids by Patricia A Lather
Patricia A Lather
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Inc
19970704
283
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