African American Women and HIV/AIDS (eBook, PDF)

Critical Responses
Redaktion: Gilbert, Dorie J.; Wright, Ednita M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

AIDS is the second-leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 18 and 44. African American women constitute 63% of all cases of AIDS among women in the United States. This volume brings together the collective wisdom of scholars, researchers, and social work professionals dealing with these concerns. Focusing attention on the primary population of women impacted by AIDS, this book presents culturally sensitive responses that meet the specific needs of African American women. An historical and current overview of the alarming HIV infection rate among African Americans, in particular women, introduces the crisis. Subsequent chapters highlight HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention strategies that are successfully impacting the African American population. Guided by a feminist perspective and grounded in social construction theory, social work theory, and social work practice, this volume privileges the voice of African American women, the group that is the most disenfranchised-and least accurately represented-in AIDS-related research and writing. This essential guide sheds light on a calamity too often overlooked, making it especially valuable for scholars, students, researchers, and practitioners involved with HIV/AIDS issues in the African American community, and with women's and black studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313039072
• Artikelnr.: 37832092

Autorenporträt

DORIE J. GILBERT is Assistant Professor at the Center for Social Work Research, University of Texas, Austin. She is co-editor of Bulletin of HIV/AIDS in Social Work. EDNITA M. WRIGHT is Director of Diversity and Outreach Services for Gannett Health Center, Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Mindy Thompson Fullilove Introduction Reconstructing the
Reality about African American Women and HIV/AIDS The Sociocultural
Construction of AIDS among African-American Women by Dorie J. Gilbert Deep
within the Well: The Voices of African-American Women Living with HIV/AIDS
by Ednita M. Wright Substance Abuse and African Americans: The Need for
Africentric-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Models by Cheryl T. Grills The
Collective Impact: Women, HIV-Affected Families, and Communities Impacted
by and Responding to AIDS HIV-Positive African American Women and Their
Families: Barriers to Effective Family Coping by Sharon E. Williams
HIV-Affected African American Children and Adolescents: Intersecting
Vulnerabilities by Dorie J. Gilbert Focus on Solutions: Harlem Dowling-West
Side Center for Children and Family Services: A Comprehensive Response to
Working with HIV-Affected Families by Melba Butler and T. Chedgzsey
Smith-McKeever Transformations: African-American HIV-Positive Women become
Peer Educators and Activist in AIDS Prevention by Mildred Williamson Making
a Way Out of No Way: Spirituality as Coping among HIV-Positive African
American Women by Ednita M. Wright Focus on Solutions: The Balm in Gilead:
The Black Church Responds to AIDS Interview with Pernessa Seele African
American Adolescent Females: Invisible and At-Risk African American
Adolescent Girls: Neglected and Disrespected by Ella Mitzell Kelly Focus on
Solutions: A Mother-Daughter Community-Based Prevention Program by Barbara
Dancy Focus on Solutions: A Culturally Tailored, Computerized Prevention
Program Targeting African American Females on College Campuses by Heather
A. Katz Community and Policy Action: Critical Responses Culturally Grounded
Responses: HIV/AIDS Practice and Counseling Issues for African American
Women by Patricia Stewart Focus on Solutions: Blacks Assisting Blacks
against AIDS (St. Louis, Mo.) by Dana Williams An Analysis of HIV/AIDS
Policy and African American Women: From Apathy to Action by Tonya E. Perry