AIDS and the Body Politic
Author: Catherine Waldby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1134768435
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Author: Catherine Waldby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1134768435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Catherine Waldby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780203360330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstates the extent to which establis hed ideas about the virus, the immune system, the HIV test and the epidemiology of the disease rely upon unexamined, conservative assumptions about sexual identity and sexual difference.
Author: Cathy Waldby
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780415141291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatherine Waldby's study draws on feminist theory, cultural studies, the philosophy of science anf gay and lesbian studies to problematise the factual scientific discourse about AIDS and interpret it as a political discourse.
Author: Marilyn Gesch
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 688
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sean Strub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1451661959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSean Strub arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1976 harbouring a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital's political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in shame. When the AIDS epidemic hit in the early '80s, Strub turned to activism to combat discrimination and demand research. Strub takes readers through his own diagnosis and inside ACT UP, the activist organisation that transformed a stigmatised cause into one of the defining political movements of our time.
Author: John Clay Leonard
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 154
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2017-10-27
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0813593417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive although Black women have shown themselves an important voting bloc? How for example, does #sayhername translate into a political agenda that manifests itself in specific policies? Shadow Bodies focuses on the positionality of the Black woman’s body, which serves as a springboard for helping us think through political and cultural representations. It does so by asking: How do discursive practices, both speech and silences, support and maintain hegemonic understandings of Black womanhood thereby rendering some Black women as shadow bodies, unseen and unremarked upon? Grounded in Black feminist thought, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery looks at the functioning of scripts ascribed to Black women’s bodies in the framing of HIV/AIDS, domestic abuse, and mental illness and how such functioning renders some bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Black women’s politics specifically.
Author: Catherine Waldby
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 670
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Didier Fassin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2007-03-14
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 0520940458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, France's leading medical anthropologist takes on one of the most tragic stories of the global AIDS crisis—the failure of the ANC government to stem the tide of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Didier Fassin traces the deep roots of the AIDS crisis to apartheid and, before that, to the colonial period. One person in ten is infected with HIV in South Africa, and President Thabo Mbeki has initiated a global controversy by funding questionable medical research, casting doubt on the benefits of preventing mother-to-child transmission, and embracing dissidents who challenge the viral theory of AIDS. Fassin contextualizes Mbeki's position by sensitively exploring issues of race and genocide that surround this controversy. Basing his discussion on vivid ethnographical data collected in the townships of Johannesburg, he passionately demonstrates that the unprecedented epidemiological crisis in South Africa is a demographic catastrophe as well as a human tragedy, one that cannot be understood without reference to the social history of the country, in particular to institutionalized racial inequality as the fundamental principle of government during the past century.