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Imagine Hope: AIDS and Gay Identity

Autor Simon Watney
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 iun 2000
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781841420578
ISBN-10: 1841420573
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

'Simon Watney is one of the most brilliant and engaged writers on AIDS in the English speaking world. ... He wants commitment to the battle against HIV and AIDS, gives it wholeheartedly himself, and his prose reverberates with his own total commitment.' - Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank University

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

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

Descriere

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.