The life and death of ACT UP/LA : anti-AIDS activism in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roth, Benita (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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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.