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Risk and Resistance
How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS
Book • 2025
Risk and Resistance recovers the crucial but often-erased role of feminist lawyers, activists, and women living with AIDS in reshaping the legal, scientific, and public health response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The book demonstrates how, in the early years of the crisis, scientific experts questioned whether women would contract HIV in significant numbers, leading to responses that excluded women.
Through detailed storytelling and rigorous scholarship, Ahmed chronicles how feminist advocates worked across race and class lines to challenge these assumptions, taking their fight to streets, legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts.
The work offers insights into how social movements can transform science in service of legal change and has implications for understanding subsequent public health crises.
The book demonstrates how, in the early years of the crisis, scientific experts questioned whether women would contract HIV in significant numbers, leading to responses that excluded women.
Through detailed storytelling and rigorous scholarship, Ahmed chronicles how feminist advocates worked across race and class lines to challenge these assumptions, taking their fight to streets, legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts.
The work offers insights into how social movements can transform science in service of legal change and has implications for understanding subsequent public health crises.
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Absentee Ballots, Asylum, and Too Many A**holes to Count
