In Her Hands

Women's Fight against AIDS in the United States

Dr. Emma Day (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

362 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38906-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Emma Day is Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	08.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	7 b-w images
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-520-38906-9 / 0520389069
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38906-9 / 9780520389069
Zustand	Neuware