Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS

Name: Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108707213
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Author: Aziza Ahmed
ISBN: 9781108707213

By Aziza Ahmed

Cambridge University Press October 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781108707213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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How did women come to be seen as 'at-risk' for HIV? In the early years of the AIDS crisis, scientific and public health experts questioned whether women were likely to contract HIV in significant numbers and rolled out a response that effectively excluded women. Against a linear narrative of scientific discovery and progress, Risk and Resistance shows that it was the work of feminist lawyers and activists who altered the legal and public health response to the AIDS epidemic. Feminist AIDS activists and their allies took to the streets, legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts to demand the recognition of women in the HIV response. Risk and Resistance recovers a key story in feminist legal history – one of strategy, struggle, and competing feminist visions for a just and healthy society. It offers a clear and compelling vision of how social movements have the capacity to transform science in the service of legal change.

Introduction: 'Women Don't Get AIDS, They Just Die From It', 1. 'We Are Not Immune': A New Branch of the Feminist Women's Health Movement

2. Litigating Risk: The Law and Politics of Disease in the Administrative State

3. Experiments in Risk: Clinical Trials and Women

4. Sex-Bargains

5. The Sex Wars Comes to AIDS: Risk and Consent

Conclusion Governing the Unknown: Legal-Scientific Settlements

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