Imagine hope : AIDS and gay identity / Simon Watney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watney, Simon.

Series:

Social aspects of AIDS.

Social aspects of AIDS

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease).

Gay people--Identity.

Gay people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Epidemic! What epidemic?; Ordinary boys; Vito Russo: 1946 90; School's out; Queer epistemology: activism, 'outing' and the politics of sexual identities; Emergent sexual identities and HIV/AIDS; The killing fields of Europe; Charles Barber: 1956 92; Read my lips: AIDS, art activism; How to have sax in an epidemic; Hard won credibility; Michael Callen: 1955 93; Dr Simon Mansfield: 1960 93; AIDS and the politics of queer diaspora; Derek Jarman 1942 94: a political death; Numbers and nightmares: HIV/AIDS in Britain

Art from the pit: some reflections on monuments, memory and AIDSIn purgatory: the work of Felix Gonzales-Torres; Acts of memory; Signifying AIDS: 'Global AIDS', red ribbons and other controversies; Concorde; AIDS awareness?; Moving targets: some reflections on the origins and history of gay men fighting AIDS; 'Lifelike': imagining the bodies of people with AIDS; The politics of AIDS treatment information activism; GLF: 25 years on; These waves of dying friends: gay men, AIDS and multiple loss

The political significance of statistics in the AIDS crisis: epidemiology, representation and re-gayingLesbian and gay studies in the age of AIDS; Imagine hope: AIDS and gay identity; Index

Notes:

"Published simultaneously in Canada."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-43366-6

1-135-43367-4

1-280-40646-1

0-203-49544-6

9786610406463

9780203495445

OCLC:

437082861