| Description |
1 online resource (x, 282 pages) : illustrations. |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Social aspects of AIDS. |
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Social aspects of AIDS.
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| Note |
"Published simultaneously in Canada." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease)
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Gay people -- Identity.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- psychology.
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Homosexuality, Male.
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Social Environment.
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Social Identification.
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United Kingdom.
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MEDICAL -- AIDS & HIV.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- AIDS & HIV.
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AIDS (Disease) (OCoLC)fst00793808
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Gays -- Identity.
(OCoLC)fst00939278
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Watney, Simon. Imagine hope. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 1841420581 (DLC) 99086533 (OCoLC)43185909 |
| ISBN |
0203495446 (electronic book) |
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9780203495445 (electronic book) |
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9781841420585 (hardback) |
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1841420581 (hardback) |
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9781841420578 (paperback) |
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1841420573 (paperback) |
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9781135433673 (e-book: PDF) |
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9781135433628 (e-book: Mobi) |
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9781135433666 (e-book: ePub) |
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1135433674 |
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1135433623 |
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1135433666 |
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