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Informationen zum Autor Emma Day is Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Klappentext " In Her Hands is outstanding in its research and widely contributes to several fields—ranging from the history of social movements to women's health and incarceration—which makes it exciting and significant."—Leslie J. Reagan, author of When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867–1973 "This beautifully researched study is a major intervention in US gender history, sexuality studies, and the history of health-care activism. Emma Day examines the multiple ways in which women in the US have responded to the AIDS crisis since the 1980s. Her analysis of the gendered politics of transmission and recognition, reproductive rights, lesbian organizing, incarceration, and health-care access provides new insights into both the HIV crisis and women's-rights movements."—Jonathan Bell, Professor of US History, University College London "Day's important history examines how intersecting oppressions have shaped women's experiences of AIDS, placing them at increased risk, under surveillance, and without access to affordable and effective methods of preventing HIV infection. Day expertly reveals how this has contributed to the wider unraveling of reproductive rights, and by demonstrating the role of poverty, prisons, and intimate partners in the ongoing pandemic, powerfully reminds us of the devastating impact of inequality on health."—Manon S. Parry, author of Broadcasting Birth Control: Mass Media and Family Planning Zusammenfassung From the outset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, women experienced infection and death. Yet when the health crisis of AIDS first emerged in the United States in the early 1980s, scientists, doctors, and public health officials overlooked women in the response to a disease first associated with men. As the acknowledgment grew that women could contract HIV and die from AIDS, they became vulnerable to hostile government policies that threatened their health and rights. But they did not passively accept mistreatment; rather, they mobilized to frame the fight against the disease. Emma Day moves the historical understanding of the impact of HIV/AIDS on women beyond their exclusion from the initial medical response and the role they played as the supporters of gay men. Focusing on the activism of women who protested the state's simultaneous neglect of their health care needs and intervention into their lives, In Her Hands opens a timely new avenue to explore the relationship between the state and women's status in modern America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. AIDS Is a Disaster, Women Die Faster 2. Testing Women 3. Women’s Fight for Safer Sex 4. Murder by Proxy 5. The Fight to End AIDS Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index ...
