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...

An inside look at the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on poor African American women
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...