Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

by Michele Tracy Berger

Book Overview

Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people with HIV? Michele Tracy Berger argues that it is the influence of a phenomenon she labels "intersectional stigma," a complex process by which women of color,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691118531
• ISBN13: 9780691118536
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"