Fatal Advice - How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong

"An urgent and important work. Once again, Patton's usual brilliance is much in evidence--her irreverent and eclectic roving around different cultural and disciplinary domains, her perceptive readings of specific texts, her ear to various subcultural grounds, her wisdom based on personal history in the queer media and AIDS community movements."--Thomas Waugh, author of "The Fruit Machine"

Sommario

Acknowledgments 1

1. Around 1989 3

2. Between Innocence and Safety 35

3. The Erotics of Innocence 63

4. "The Only Weapon We Have . . ." 95

5. Visualizing Safe Sex 118

Conclusion: From Visibility to Insurrection: A Manifesto 139

Notes 157

Bibliography 171

Index 177

Info autore

Cindy Patton

Riassunto

The American public responded to the first cases of AIDS with fear and panic. This work offers an examination of how the nation attempted, with mixed results, to negotiate the fears and concerns brought on by the epidemic. It traces a slow separation between official advice and that provided by those on the front lines in the battle against AIDS.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Cindy Patton, Patton, Cindy Patton
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.04.1996
• EAN: 9780822317470
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1747-0
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Peso: 308 g
• Serie: Series Q; Series Q
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale