Life and Death of Act Up/la - Anti-Aids Activism in Los Angeles From the 1980s to the 2000s

Informationen zum Autor Benita Roth is Professor of Sociology, History, and Women's Studies at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, social protest, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. Her first book Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave (Cambridge, 2003) won the Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association. Klappentext This book examines ACT UP/LA and their activities protesting against government neglect of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s. Zusammenfassung The book traces the history of ACT UP/LA! whose members battled government and institutional neglect of the AIDS crisis during the 1980s and 1990s. The book shows how participants fought for adequate responses to the epidemic! and how they faced internal challenges to their organization's solidarity due to social inequalities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Anti-AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s; 2. Beginning, building, and being ACT UP/LA; 3. Battling for women's issues and women's visibility in ACT UP/LA; 4. Intersectional crises in ACT UP/LA; 5. Demobilization: ACT UP/LA in the years 1992-7; 6. From streets to suits: the inside(r)s and outside(r)s of ACT UP/LA; 7. Looking back on the life and death of ACT UP/LA.

Product details

• Authors: Benita Roth, Benita (Binghamton University Roth, Roth Benita
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2017
• EAN: 9781107514171
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51417-1
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, California, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Pressure groups & lobbying, Hiv / Aids: Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics