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In Her Hands: Women's Fight Against AIDS in the United States

In Her Hands: Women's Fight Against AIDS in the United States

Day, Emma

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20th Century United States HistoryHIV & AIDSWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0520389069
ISBN13: 9780520389069
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Aug 1 2023
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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