Black Women's Risk for HIV : Rough Living

ISBN-13: 9780789031693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 261 str.

Quinn M. Gentry

Opis

Black Women's Risk for HIV: Rough Living is a valuable look into the structural and behavioral factors in high-risk environments--specifically inner-city neighborhoods like the "Rough" in Atlanta--that place black women in danger of HIV infection. Using black feminism to deconstruct the meaning and significance of race, class, and gender, this text gives a voice to a unique disenfranchised population and legitimizes their lives and experiences. This important ethnographic study focuses not only on the problems associated with the continued rise in HIV rates among African American women, but provides viable solutions to these problems as well.

Spis treści

• 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

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Quinn Gentry