Synopses & Reviews
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 womens 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.
Synopsis
Sisters, mothers, wives, lovers--women with HIV and AIDS try to make sense of the impact of the disease on their lives in this unique blend of interviews and in subsequent follow-up visits. Readers will share in the wisdom and sustenance these women have found in themselves and with each other in this inspiring book.
Synopsis
Troubling the Angels deals with the sea changes that HIV/AIDS brings to womens lives. Organized as a hypertextual, multilayered weaving of interview data, feminist qualitative methods, the womens own writing, and various kinds of informational fragments about angels and AIDS, the book mixes sociological, historical, popular culture, therapeutic, and policy analysis along with the privileging of ethnographic voice to enact a feminist ethnography at the limits of representation.
About the Author
Patti Lather is associate professor of education and associated womens 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 womens 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.