Imagine Hope

AIDS and Gay Identity
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-1-84142-057-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 300 g

Presents a chronological selection of Watney's writings from the 1990s, with new contextualising introductory and concluding essays and offers a chronicle of the changing and often confusing course of the epidemic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watney, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin HIV, AIDS
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Infektionskrankheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Epidemic! What epidemic? 1 Ordinary boys 2 Vito Russo: 1946–90 3 School’s out 4 Queer epistemology: activism, ‘outing’ and the politics of sexual identities 5 Emergent sexual identities and HIV/AIDS 6 The killing fields of Europe 7 Charles Barber: 1956–92 8 Read my lips: AIDS, art & activism 9 How to have sax in an epidemic 10 Hard won credibility 11 Michael Callen: 1955–93 12 Dr Simon Mansfield: 1960–93 13 AIDS and the politics of queer diaspora 14 Derek Jarman 1942–94: a political death 15 Numbers and nightmares: HIV/AIDS in Britain 16 Art from the pit: some reflections on monuments, memory and AIDS 17 In purgatory: the work of Felix Gonzales-Torres 18 Acts of memory 19 Signifying AIDS: ‘Global AIDS’, red ribbons and other controversies 20 Concorde 21 AIDS awareness? 22 Moving targets: some reflections on the origins and history of gay men fighting AIDS 23 ‘Lifelike’: imagining the bodies of people with AIDS 24 The politics of AIDS treatment information activism 25 GLF: 25 years on 26 These waves of dying friends: gay men, AIDS and multiple loss 27 The political significance of statistics in the AIDS crisis: epidemiology, representation and re-gaying 28 Lesbian and gay studies in the age of AIDS 29 Imagine hope: AIDS and gay identity

Über Autor(innen)

Simon Watney is a well-known writer and broadcaster, art critic, art historian and Director of the Red Hot AIDS Charitable Trust.