ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|60 pages
Life After Diagnosis
part 2|59 pages
Relationships
part 3|27 pages
Making Meaning
part 4|27 pages
Living/Dying with AIDS
part 5|36 pages
Support Groups
part 6|25 pages
Epilogue