Activism against AIDS : at the intersection of sexuality, race, gender, and class / Brett C. Stockdill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stockdill, Brett C., 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS activists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishing, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

AIDS has claimed the lives of more than 400,000 people in the United States, becoming the focus of intense social activism. Brett Stockdill reveals that people living with HIV/AIDS are often multiply oppressed—women of color, for example—and explores how interlocking oppressions fragment activism and thus impede AIDS prevention and intervention. Demonstrating that a unified approach to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality can most effectively combat the AIDS epidemic, he highlights the critical link between social analysis and public policy.

Contents:

AIDS, multiple inequalities, and activism

Framing the AIDS crisis: inequalities and divisions on the movement and community levels

Forging unity: grassroots AIDS activism in communities of color

ACTing UP for prisoners with AIDS: AIDS activism on multiple fronts

Cops, courts, and the FBI: repression and AIDS acitivism

An intersectional approach to social movement research and acitivism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62637-282-9

OCLC:

1334344394