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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paula A Treichler |
| ISBN: | 0822322862 9780822322863 0822323184 9780822323181 |
| OCLC Number: | 40331281 |
| Description: | xi, 477 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | AIDS, homophobia, and biomedical discourse: an epidemic of signification -- The burdens of history: gender and representation in AIDS discourse, 1981-1988 -- AIDS and HIV infection in the Third World: a first world chronicle -- Seduced and terrorized: AIDS in the media -- AIDS, HIV, and the cultural construction of reality -- AIDS narratives on television: whose story? -- AIDS, Africa, and cultural theory -- Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, identity, and inscriptions of gender -- How to have theory in an epidemic: the evolution of AIDS, treatment and activism. |
| Responsibility: | Paula A. Treichler. |
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"During the 1980s the cultural theorist Paula Treichler published a series of provocative and significant articles deconstructing how the new AIDS epidemic was being invented. Several of her pieces have had a lasting impact on our understanding of the multiple meanings of AIDS, in particular her concept of AIDS as 'an epidemic of signification'. A decade later she has brought these writings together with a new prologue and some concluding remarks in a book."--Sexualities, 3 (3) "Looking backward and ahead, How to have theory in an epidemic is nothing short of a handbook of the meaning of AIDS: as human experience, as political reality, as public service action, and, not least, as moral engagement with one of the great challenges to meaning-making and unmaking in everyday life." Dr Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University "Paula Treichler's essays are certainly among the most significant written on the subject of AIDS. They are, in fact, a model of what the field of cultural studies at its best can contribute to our thinking about urgent social and political issues. This is an essential book, one that will strongly affect the way people approach the subject of AIDS in the future." Douglas Crimp, author of AIDS: Demo Graphics Read more...
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