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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: life and death of ACT UP/LA
    sub title: anti-AIDS activism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s
  name:
    name part: Roth, Benita
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: xiii, 249 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
  abstract: "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"--
  abstract: "Epigraphs are drawn from the work of one of the most respected and influential sociologists of the twentieth century - that would be the late Ralph Turner - and a snarky UCLA graduate student- that would be me. Juxtaposed, they show how much activism around questions of health and disease has shifted over the last several decades. Writing in 1972, Dr. Turner captured the general view that illnesses like cancer were equal opportunity diseases. Very few of those suffering from cancer would have attributed the cause of that cancer to negligence by others, and therefore the means of generating the moral outrage that would turn misfortune to injustice was lacking. But moral outrage around health issues was just around the corner. By the end of the 1970s, the feminist women's health movement was in full swing, challenging sexist health practices, doctors' paternalistic authority over women, inequalities in health care delivery, and prevailing standards in resource allocation for research. Views on what caused disease and who was responsible for health changed, and the feminist health movement spilled over (Meyer and Whittier 1994), spawning other movements that worked to pave the way for a large-scale democratization of the culture of medical treatment and research"--
  table of contents: Anti-AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s -- Beginning, building, and being ACT UP/LA -- Battling for women's issues and women's visibility in ACT UP/LA -- Intersectional crises in ACT UP/LA -- Demobilization : ACT UP/LA in the years 1992-1997 -- From streets to suits : the inside(r)s and outside(r)s of ACT UP/LA -- Looking back on the life and death of ACT UP/LA.
  note: Benita Roth, Binghamton University.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index.
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    geographic code: n-us-ca
  subject:
    name:
      name part: ACT UP Los Angeles (Organization)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: AIDS activists
    geographic: California
    geographic: Los Angeles
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Gay people
    topic: Political activity
    geographic: California
    geographic: Los Angeles
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Gay liberation movement
    geographic: California
    geographic: Los Angeles
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Politics, Practical
  subject:
    name:
      name part: ACT UP Los Angeles (Organization)
  subject:
    topic: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Dissent and Disputes
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Health Policy
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: History, 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: Organizations
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Politics
  subject:
    topic: Sexual and Gender Minorities
  subject:
    geographic: Los Angeles
  subject:
    topic: Sida
    topic: Aspect politique
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Personnes homosexuelles
    topic: Activité politique
    geographic: Californie
    geographic: Los Angeles
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Mouvements sociaux
    geographic: Californie
    geographic: Los Angeles
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Médecine
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Politique
  subject:
    topic: politics
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Sociology
    topic: General
  subject:
    name:
      name part: ACT UP Los Angeles (Organization)
  subject:
    topic: Politics, Practical
  subject:
    topic: AIDS activists
  subject:
    topic: AIDS (Disease)
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Gays
    topic: Political activity
  subject:
    geographic: California
    geographic: Los Angeles
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: RA643.84.C2 R67 2017
  classification: 362.19697/9200979494
  classification: 2017 F-719
  classification: WC 11 AC2
  classification: SOC026000
  identifier: 9781107106314
  identifier: 1107106311
  identifier: 9781107514171
  identifier: 1107514177
  identifier: 2017009646
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170428
    record change date: 20240322182051.9
    record identifier: in00004784529
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng