Description
| Product ID: | 9780520389069 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | In Her Hands |
| Subtitle: | Women's Fight against AIDS in the United States |
| Authors: | Author: Dr. Emma Day |
| Page Count: | 362 |
| Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, History, Gender studies: women and girls, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases, Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Gender studies: women, HIV / AIDS, Coping with illness & specific conditions, USA, 20th century |
| Description: | 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-08-01 |
