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Sociology Department Talk

Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Northwestern University
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
11:00 AM-12:30 PM
4154 LSA Building Map
Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

How do women remake, not simply rebuild, their lives after traumas associated with social, economic, and political marginalization? Drawing on interviews with over one hundred women living with HIV/AIDS, Watkins-Hayes uses the AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how individuals generate radical improvements in their social well-being and confront what she terms injuries of inequality. Watkins-Hayes analyzes women’s transformative projects, which are multi-dimensional processes in which individuals fundamentally shift how they interpret, strategize around, and address struggles related to the inequities that have shaped their lives. Watkins-Hayes traces the political activism that has been critical for the abilities of women living with HIV/AIDS to launch successful transformative projects and argues that the AIDS service and health care infrastructure offers important and underappreciated lessons for how we might think about assisting vulnerable populations and confronting unequal systems.
Building: LSA Building
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Sociology
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Department of Sociology