Troubling The Angels

Patricia A. Lather, Christine S. Smithies

• Preface 1 The Book -- Preface 2 The Women and the Support Group Meetings -- Life After Diagnosis -- “I’m Gonna Die from Stress, Not HIV” -- “Living with a Time Bomb” -- “Full Blown AIDS Had Came”: Lori -- “I Got Another Wake-Up Call”: Lina B -- “I’ve Got Some Stories That Would Curl Your Hair” -- “And I Didn’t Even Pay My Income Taxes”: Amber -- AIDS and Angels: A Cloudy Place -- Relationships -- “The Phony Stuff: You Don’t Want to Go Through It Anymore” -- “I’m Not Close-Mouthed at All”: A Daughter -- “I Don’t Have Fifty Years to Be a Mother”: Lisa -- “Love and Prayers, Mom”: Linda B -- “I’m a Sexy Momma” -- The Angel of History: AIDS as a Global Crisis -- Making Meaning -- “I Don’t Know Have to File It Away That This Has Happened to Us” -- “I’d Probably Be Dead if It Wasn’t for HIV” -- Angelology: A History of Truths -- Living/Dying with AIDS -- “We Are the Teachers” -- “A Greater Risk of Hope”: CR and Linda B -- “We Had a Real Nice Life”: Louisa -- Death Makes Angels of Us All -- Support Groups -- “It’s Taken Me Years to Get Here” -- “We’re Supposed to Be a Support Group” -- “Seize the Day”: Lori -- An Ache of Wings: The Social Challenge of AIDS -- Epilogue -- Troubled Reading: Our Bodies, This Book, This Fire -- Demographic Data (At Time of Group Interviews) -- "Time to Go Home":Holley