Pain, courage, and wisdom: stories of women living with HIV

This is a descriptive study of women with Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Women have been neglected in social science research and literature on HIV/AIDS (Anastos & Marte, 1989, Corea, 1992). Unfortunately even when women with HIV / AIDS have been studied it has been in relation to their role as transmitters of the disease (through prostitution and child birth) not as suffers of the deadly disease themselves (Carovano, 1991). This study recounts an insider's perspective of the learnings, strengths, and challenges of women living with HIV through their stories. Themes identified through qualitative analysis in these stories provide policy recommendations for practitioners and directions for further social science research.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Family and Child Development

Department dc:contributor.department

Family and Child Development

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1995

Author dc:creator

• Gosling, Anne

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Fu, Victoria R.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Good, Charles M. Jr.
• Protinsky, Howard O. Jr.
• Goodsell, Charles T.
• Stith, Sandra M.

• narrative
• feminism

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-06062008-162629

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/38198