Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS Administration A Junior Library Guild Gold

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Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS Administration A Junior Library Guild GoldWorkable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people with HIV? Michele Tracy Berger argues that it is the influence of a phenomenon she labels "intersectional stigma," a complex process by which women of color,