1st Edition
Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS Mending Fractured Selves
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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Meet the women behind the statistics! Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected population of the United States. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences. This powerful text offers a firsthand view of what it is like to live day-to-day as a... Read more
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Disruption and Legitimation: Hillary
- Problematic Repair Strategies: Denise
- Disruption and Nonrepair: Stephanie
- HIV/AIDS As a Gender Issue
- Analytic Framework: Biographical Disruption and HIV/AIDS
- Sample and Methodology
- Overview of This Book
- Chapter 2. “Feeling Like Nothing”: Receiving an HIV Diagnosis and Initial Disruption
- Biographical Disruption Among Women with HIV/AIDS
- Hopelessness
- Disbelief
- Social Withdrawal
- Placing Blame
- Putting Oneself Last
- Assigning Meaning and Sense of Self
- Women and Disruption
- Chapter 3. Living with HIV Infection: The Impact of Illness on Everyday Life
- Gender and the Psychosocial Impact of HIV Infection
- Adaptive Tasks for Women with HIV/AIDS
- The Perceived Significance of Gender
- Women's Unique Experiences and Needs
- Chapter 4. Towards Legitimation: Coping with HIV/AIDS
- Coping with HIV/AIDS: A Brief Review of the Literature
- Women's Ways of Coping: Repairing Disrupted Biographies
- Going Public and Becoming an Activist
- Support Groups
- Spirituality
- Establishing Positive Lifestyles
- Avoidance
- Legitimation and Sense of Self
- Chapter 5. Social Support: The Role of Informal Networks in Women's Lives
- Social Support and HIV/AIDS
- Familial Support Networks
- Problematic Support
- Keeping the Secret: Untapped Support Networks and Self-Protection
- Social Support and Illness Progression: Speculating on the Likelihood of Future Support
- Chapter 6. Women As Carers: The Dual Challenge of Caregiving and Living with HIV Infection
- Mothering
- Planning for the Future: Child Care and Guardianship
- Caring for Adults with HIV/AIDS
- The Consequences of Caring
- Chapter 7. Multiple Assaults on Self: The Relative Impact of HIV/AIDS on Women's Lives
- “I'm Used to Being Ate Up Anyway”
- “Nothing Compares to HIV”
- The Relative Impact of Assaults
- Chapter 8. Disruption and Repair: Lessons from Women's Illness Experiences
- The Strengths and Weaknesses of Women's Coping
- Formal Care and Women with HIV Infection
- Empowerment and Social Change
- Experiencing Illness: Extending HIV-Positive Women's Experiences to Other Populations
- Appendix: Sample Demographic Summary
- References
- Index
Biography
R Dennis Shelby, Desiree Ciambrone
