Benita Roth

The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines ACT UP/LA and their activities protesting against government neglect of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781107514171
• ISBN-10: 1107514177
• Artikelnr.: 47150380

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.