Big Dreams - Brazzi Barnes, Donna
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Donna Brazzi Barnes knew from adolescence that her future lay beyond the bounds of the small California town she grew up in-but she didn't know to what extent assumptions about the role of women would get in the way of her aspirations. In this memoir in essays, she shares how she took on-and overcame-the many obstacles she encountered on the way to realizing her big dreams.

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Donna Brazzi Barnes knew from adolescence that her future lay beyond the bounds of the small California town she grew up in-but she didn't know to what extent assumptions about the role of women would get in the way of her aspirations. In this memoir in essays, she shares how she took on-and overcame-the many obstacles she encountered on the way to realizing her big dreams.
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Donna Brazzi Barnes taught dental hygiene for over twenty years before earning a PhD in sociology from the University of California, San Francisco, after which she began a career teaching women's studies and continuing her research on women with HIV/AIDS in three US cities. Barnes has given talks at numerous national social science conferences, including the International AIDS Society Conference in Paris and International AIDS Conferences in Toronto and Barcelona. Her scholarship has been anthologized in Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS (Springer, 2013), and two other books, as well as in various academic journals. She lives in Kensington, California.