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Libro 26 di 65: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Mackenzie, Sonja

 
9780813560977: Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic
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ISBN 10: 0813560977 ISBN 13: 9780813560977
Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2013

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One of the most relevant social problems in contemporary American life is the continuing HIV epidemic in the Black population. With vivid ethnographic detail, this book brings together scholarship on the structural dimensions of the AIDS epidemic and the social construction of sexuality to assert that shifting forms of sexual stories—structural intimacies—are emerging, produced by the meeting of intimate lives and social structural patterns. These stories render such inequalities as racism, poverty, gender power disparities, sexual stigma, and discrimination as central not just to the dramatic, disproportionate spread of HIV in Black communities in the United States, but to the formation of Black sexualities.

Sonja Mackenzie elegantly argues that structural vulnerability is felt—quite literally—in the blood, in the possibilities and constraints on sexual lives, and in the rhetorics of their telling. The circulation of structural intimacies in daily life and in the political domain reflects possibilities for seeking what Mackenzie calls intimate justice at the nexus of cultural, economic, political, and moral spheres. Structural Intimacies presents a compelling case: in an era of deepening medicalization of HIV/AIDS, public health must move beyond individual-level interventions to community-level health equity frames and policy changes

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SONJA MACKENZIE is an adjunct assistant professor at the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University.



SONJA MACKENZIE is an adjunct assistant professor at the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University.

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Editore
Rutgers Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2013
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0813560977
ISBN 13 
9780813560977
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
185
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