Practicing Desire - Dowsett, Gary D
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For more than a decade, gay men have faced a terrible crisis--the HIV epidemic and its consequence for many, AIDS. The epidemic coincided with the development of visible gay communities, distilled from cultural, political, and sexual activities, and claiming for homosexual men a recognition of the pleasures and prerogatives of same-sex love. These gay communities are substantial subcultures, often with a geographic focus and commercial infrastructure. The same period has also seen the rise in analyses of gay life that challenged conventional configurations of human sexuality, and that have…mehr

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For more than a decade, gay men have faced a terrible crisis--the HIV epidemic and its consequence for many, AIDS. The epidemic coincided with the development of visible gay communities, distilled from cultural, political, and sexual activities, and claiming for homosexual men a recognition of the pleasures and prerogatives of same-sex love. These gay communities are substantial subcultures, often with a geographic focus and commercial infrastructure. The same period has also seen the rise in analyses of gay life that challenged conventional configurations of human sexuality, and that have wrought profound changes in such fields as medicine, history, literary criticism, and the social sciences. >
Autorenporträt
Gary W. Dowsett is Lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. His most recent book (as co-author) is Sustaining Safe Sex: Gay Communities Respond to AIDS.