The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA - Hardcover
by Benita Roth
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Availability:In StockContributor:Benita RothTheme:Chronological Period/1980's, Chronological Period/1990's, Chronological Period/20th Century, Cultural Region/Southern California, Cultural Region/West Coast, Cultural Region/Western U.S., Geographic Orientation/California, Locality/Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA, Topical/AIDSPublish date:5/11/2017Pages:260
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107106314ISBN-10:1107106311UPC:9781107106314Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Political ProcessBook Topic:State & Local, 20th Century, Political AdvocacySize:9.40 x 6.47 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.54Product ID:SC8SKPQMHV
The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA explores the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Los Angeles, part of the militant anti-AIDS movement of the 1980s and 1990s. ACT UP/LA battled government, medical, and institutional neglect of the AIDS epidemic, engaging in multi-targeted protest in Los Angeles and nationally. The book shows how appealing the direct action anti-AIDS activism was for people across the United States; as well as arguing the need to understand how the politics of place affect organizing, and how the particular features of the Los Angeles cityscape shaped possibilities for activists. A feminist lens is used, seeing social inequalities as mutually reinforcing and interdependent, to examine the interaction of activists and the outcomes of their actions. Their struggle against AIDS and homophobia, and to have a voice in their healthcare, presaged the progressive, multi-issue, anti-corporate, confrontational organizing of the late twentieth century, and deserves to be part of that history.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107106314ISBN-10:1107106311UPC:9781107106314Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Political ProcessBook Topic:State & Local, 20th Century, Political AdvocacySize:9.40 x 6.47 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.54Product ID:SC8SKPQMHV
Roth, Benita: - 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.
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