Remaking a Life How Women Living wit..., Celeste WatkinsHayes
Remaking a Life How Women Living wit..., Celeste WatkinsHayes
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Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

Author: Celeste Watkins-Hayes

Narrator: Cherise Boothe

Unabridged: 25 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2020


Synopsis

In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change—and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago-based women living with HIV/AIDS, Celeste Watkins-Hayes takes readers on an uplifting journey through women’s transformative projects, a multidimensional process in which women shift their approach to their physical, social, economic, and political survival, thereby changing their viewpoint of “dying from” AIDS to “living with” it. With an eye towards improving the lives of women, Remaking a Life provides techniques to encourage private, nonprofit, and government agencies to successfully collaborate, and shares policy ideas with the hope of alleviating the injuries of inequality faced by those living with HIV/AIDS everyday.

Reviews

Goodreads review by redhood on November 07, 2024

Remaking a Life by Celeste Watkins-Hayes is an extraordinary study of resilience and agency among women living with HIV/AIDS in Chicago; unlike many clinical or data-driven studies, Watkins-Hayes centers her research on the lived experiences of these women, exploring how they navigate the intersecti......more

Goodreads review by Jason on April 05, 2025

I'm really glad I read this. I study HIV/AIDS organizations, and I think Watkins-Hayes' research dovetailed with what I've been seeing in my own work, which felt incredibly fulfilling and exciting. I learned a lot, it enriched my understanding, and it was a novel approach. Highly reccomend. Star off......more

Goodreads review by Samantha on April 30, 2025

She was not playing around with this, me just thinking the whole time how much work this book must’ve been? Amazing. Time to write my paper for finals 🫡......more