Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

In the face of life—threatening news, how does our view of life change—and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago—based women living with HIV/AIDS, Celeste Watkins—Hayes takes readers on an uplifting journey throu...