{"product_id":"black-womens-risk-for-hiv-hardback","title":"Black Women's Risk for HIV - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn inside look at the devastating impact of the HIV\/AIDS epidemic on poor African American women\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Black Women’s Risk for HIV: Rough Living\u003c\/b\u003e is a valuable look into the structural and behavioral factors in high-risk environmentsspecifically inner-city neighborhoods like the Rough in Atlantathat 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As we move into the 21st century, unsafe heterosexual contact has become a common route of HIV infection and an overwhelming majority of those infected are women. More and more, these are women of color who reside in poor inner-city neighborhoods. \u003cb\u003eBlack Women’s Risk for HIV: Rough Living\u003c\/b\u003e uses ethnographic methods to define and break down the social, economic, and political factors directly affecting women in high-risk environments. An informative and compassionate rendering of a growing problem, this text offers an inside look at the devastating impact of the HIV\/AIDS epidemic on poor African American women and works to link these women’s individual circumstances to the larger social context. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Some topics \u003cb\u003eBlack Women’s Risk for HIV: Rough Living\u003c\/b\u003e explores in-depth are:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e the 20-year change in the Roughin inner-city Atlantafrom a middle-class African American neighborhood to a high-risk hub of chronic drug users and sellers \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e the history and implementation of the Health Intervention Project (HIP) in the Rough \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e theoretical frameworks that shape the analysis of the impact of this neighborhood as a on the lives of women at high-risk for contracting HIV \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e women’s living arrangements in the Rough and their relation to the structural constraints that place them at risk \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e a living-arrangement-based categorization of women in the Roughstreet women and house womenand the defining characteristics of each \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e family relations and the personal histories of women as influential factors \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e women’s intimate partner relationships and motivation for condom use in those relationships \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e mother-child relations and views of parenting that cycle between hopeful and hopeless mothering \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e the disappearance of work and welfare from the inner-city community and women’s methods of economic survival \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e the meaning and significance of church and religion in the lives of high-risk women \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e four primary methods of reducing HIV risk in these environments \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003ci\u003eand much more!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile qualitative health researchers interested in race, class, gender, and behavioral perspectives of HIV risk and protective factors will find \u003cb\u003eBlack Women’s Risk for HIV: Rough Living\u003c\/b\u003e a valuable resource, so too will public health practitioners, medical sociologists, substance abuse and mental health researchers, and graduate students focusing on public health, sociology, community psychology, and women’s health.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45583231516910,"sku":"9780789031693","price":84.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780789031693.jpg?v=1721096347","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/black-womens-risk-for-hiv-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}