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Gender Inequality in Our Changing World: A Comparative Approach
focuses on the contemporary United States but places it in
historical and global context. Written for sociology of gender
courses, this textbook identifies conditions that encourage greater
or lesser gender inequality, explains how gender and gender
inequality change over time, and explores how gender intersects
with other hierarchies, especially those related to race, social
class, and sexual identity. The authors integrate historical and
international materials as they help students think both
theoretically and empirically about the causes and consequences of
gender inequality, both in their own lives and in the lives of
others worldwide.
Meet the women behind the statistics Women's Experiences with
HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS
on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected
population of the United States. Based on interviews with
HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences.
These courageous women speak candidly about the impact of illness
on their lives in interviews that highlight key issues pertinent to
living with the infection, including the everyday impact of an HIV
diagnosis and the effect of the disease on women's social and
familial roles. Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and
compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected
with HIV. Their stories detail their ongoing efforts--with varying
degrees of success--to come to grips with the disease as they try
to rebuild their lives. Through qualitative analysis, the book
demonstrates the importance of relational resources, such as AIDS
activism, support groups, and social support. It also addresses
potential problems for women associated with caregiving and
presents ethnographic research findings on the complex factors that
affect women with HIV (socioeconomic status, sexual preference,
lifestyle differences). Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS also
addresses research topics such as: how HIV infection affects a
woman's sense of self how women repair disruption and restore
identities the limits to women's coping strategies and whether
those strategies still work if women become functionally impaired
or develop AIDS how women's structural and social environments
facilitate or impede repair the role of women's informal networks
in biological disruption and repair A rare look at the experience
of women infected with HIV (most studies focus on male samples),
Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is an invaluable academic
resource as a course supplement in the fields of medical sociology,
women's studies, public health, a
Gender Inequality in Our Changing World: A Comparative Approach
focuses on the contemporary United States but places it in
historical and global context. Written for sociology of gender
courses, this textbook identifies conditions that encourage greater
or lesser gender inequality, explains how gender and gender
inequality change over time, and explores how gender intersects
with other hierarchies, especially those related to race, social
class, and sexual identity. The authors integrate historical and
international materials as they help students think both
theoretically and empirically about the causes and consequences of
gender inequality, both in their own lives and in the lives of
others worldwide.
Meet the women behind the statistics Women's Experiences with
HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS
on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected
population of the United States. Based on interviews with
HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences.
These courageous women speak candidly about the impact of illness
on their lives in interviews that highlight key issues pertinent to
living with the infection, including the everyday impact of an HIV
diagnosis and the effect of the disease on women's social and
familial roles. Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and
compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected
with HIV. Their stories detail their ongoing efforts--with varying
degrees of success--to come to grips with the disease as they try
to rebuild their lives. Through qualitative analysis, the book
demonstrates the importance of relational resources, such as AIDS
activism, support groups, and social support. It also addresses
potential problems for women associated with caregiving and
presents ethnographic research findings on the complex factors that
affect women with HIV (socioeconomic status, sexual preference,
lifestyle differences). Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS also
addresses research topics such as: how HIV infection affects a
woman's sense of self how women repair disruption and restore
identities the limits to women's coping strategies and whether
those strategies still work if women become functionally impaired
or develop AIDS how women's structural and social environments
facilitate or impede repair the role of women's informal networks
in biological disruption and repair A rare look at the experience
of women infected with HIV (most studies focus on male samples),
Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is an invaluable academic
resource as a course supplement in the fields of medical sociology,
women's studies, public health, a
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