Table of Contents

• Foreword (Kirk W. Elifson and Claire E. Sterk)
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction: This Is the Rough!
• The rough As a High-Risk Environment
• Facing My Own rough Reality
• Background of the Health Intervention Project
• Ethnographic Research Methods
• Theoretical Framework
• Research Objectives
• Chapter 2. Living in the Rough
• Street Women
• House Women
• Principles to Guide HIV Prevention Initiatives Based on Women’s Living arrangements
• Chapter 3. Rough Family Relations
• Growing Up Decent
• Growing Up Street
• Making Sense of Decent and Street Upbringing
• Accounts of Interactions with Families of Orientation
• Deceiving Family Members
• Engaging in Frequent Interaction with Family
• Principles to Guide Family-Focused HIV Prevention Initiatives
• Chapter 4. Intimate Relationships in the Rough
• Overview of the Five Stages of Intimate Partner Relationships
• The Courtship Stage
• The Commitment Stage
• The Conflict Stage
• The Compromise Stage
• The Conclusion Stage
• Principles to Guide a Couples-Centered HIV Prevention Initiative
• Chapter 5. Mothering in the Rough
• Maintaining Custody on the Margin
• Giving Up Temporary Custody to Kin
• Disclosing Drug Use to Authorities
• Grandmothering As a Hopeful Experience
• Hopeless Mothers Themes
• Cycling Between Hopeless and Hopeful Mothering
• Principles to Guide Addressing Issues Related to Motherhood As HIV Prevention Initiatives
• Chapter 6. When Work and Welfare Disappear in the Rough
• Hustling Knowledge
• Renting Space
• Shoplifting
• Odd-Job Hustlers
• Principles to Guide Economic-Focused HIV Prevention Initiatives
• Chapter 7. Religiosity in the Rough
• The Churched
• The Unchurched
• A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Potential Roles for Inner-City Churches in HIV Prevention
• Principles to Guide Faith-Based HIV Prevention Initiatives
• Chapter 8. Reducing Risk in the Rough
• Leaving the rough for Drug Treatment
• Practicing Safer Sex
• Making Other Changes
• Making No Changes in Behavior
• Chapter 9. Black Feminist Theory As Behavior Change Theory and Practice
• Rethinking the HIP Intervention
• An HIV Prevention Model for Black Women Guided by Black Feminism
• References
• Index