Title Activism against AIDS : at the intersection of sexuality, race, gender, and class / Brett C. Stockdill

Published Boulder, Col. : Lynne Rienner Pub., ©2003

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Description 1 online resource Contents Title page; copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; ch1-AIDS, Multiple Inequalities, and Activism; Multiple Oppressions and HIV/AIDS; Social Movement Theory; Methodology and Data; The Outline of the Book; ch2-Framing the AIDS Crisis: Inequalities and Divisions on the Movement and Community Levels; AIDS Consciousness; Partial Oppositional Consciousness; When Consciousnesses Clash: Contested Definitions and Controversial Analogies; Multiple Sites of Oppression; ch3-Forging Unity: Grassroots AIDS Activism in Communities of Color; Mobilization Strategies Activism and Oppositional Consciousness: The Centrality of RaceExpanding Oppositional Consciousness; ch4-ACTing UP for Prisoners with AIDS: AIDS Activism on Multiple Fronts; The Social Conditions of Prisoners; The Marginalization of Prison Issues Within the AIDS Movement; The Emergence of ACT UP/Chicago's Prison Issues Committee; ACT UP/Chicago's Prison Issues Committee Strategies; Analyzing the Committee's Direct Action Strategy; Expanding the Third-Party Debate; ch5-Cops, Courts, and the FBI: Repression and AIDS Activism; COINTELPRO and Rodney King: Legacies of Fear Summary "Brett Stockdill reveals that people living with HIV/AIDs are often multiply oppressed - gay men of color, for example - and explores how interlocking oppressions fragment activism and thus impede AIDS prevention and intervention. Demonstrating that a unified approach to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality can most effectively combat the AIDS epidemic, he highlights critical links among sociological analysis, public policy, and activism."--Jacket Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects AIDS activists. AIDS (Disease) Social change. Politics, Practical. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Social Change Socioeconomic Factors Politics politics. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Social change Politics, Practical AIDS (Disease) AIDS activists AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects Bürgerrechtsbewegung Politisches Engagement Aids USA Form Electronic book ISBN 9781626372825 1626372829

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