Troubling the Angels: Women Living With Hiv/Aids [Paperback]

Patricia A Lather (Author), Christine S Smithies (Author)

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Basic Books (Jun 13 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813390168
ISBN-13: 978-0813390161
Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 408 g

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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #148,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3 in Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > AIDS
- #19 in Books > Science > Medicine > Diseases > AIDS & HIV
- #20 in Books > Medicine > Diseases > AIDS & HIV

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Educator Patti Lather and psychologist Chris Smithies observed and chronicled support groups for women diagnosed with HIV. Whether black, Latina, poor, or middle class, the women in these groups share the common bond of living with HIV/AIDS, and they describe how it affects their lives in terms full of practical reality and moving poignancy, as they fight the disease, accept, reflect, live, and die with and in it.The authors weave into these accounts their own experiences as researchers, but also as women emotionally tied to the sufferings of sisters, mothers, wives, and lovers with HIV/AIDS.Finally, the reader is provided with statistics and fact boxes that put these women’s words in context for a fuller understanding of the epidemic of HIV/AIDS as it affects its fastest growing population. In an epilogue, Lather and Smithies revisit these women in 1995 and 1996, not only to once again chronicle their lives with HIV/AIDS, but to visit the friends they had made and to mourn the friends they have lost.

About the Author

Patti Lather is associate professor of education and associated women’s studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/in the Postmodern. Chris Smithies is a feminist psychologist with a private practice in Columbus, Ohio. Patti Lather is associate professor of education and associated women’s studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/in the Postmodern. Chris Smithies is a feminist psychologist with a private practice in Columbus, Ohio.

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This review is from: Troubling the Angels: Women Living With Hiv/Aids (Paperback)

I read this book in a women's studies class. It is based on a qualitative study about HIV+ women. It features a collection of voices from a series of interviews with several support groups, and focuses mainly on the emotional/spiritual aspect of living with HIV/AIDS. The two researchers who ran the study and edited the book are as much a part of the book as the women are. They keep a running commentary on the bottom of each page reflecting on the interviewing process and their relationships as researchers and friends to the women in the study, keeping the reader aware of the power differentials that might have an effect on the women's stories. The book also contains several angel "intertexts" which I personally didn't find to be very necessary, but Lather and Smithies explain it in the book. Overall, as a person who's never known anyone with HIV/AIDS, I liked how it focused on everyday "living" with HIV/AIDS. The voices of different women were featured and it showed the wide range of emotions and experiences that these women faced while living with HIV/AIDS.

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