Bearing witness : Gay Men's Health Crisis and the politics of AIDS

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    • Kayal, Philip M.

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Bearing witness : Gay Men's Health Crisis and the politics of AIDS

Philip M. Kayal

Westview Press, c1993

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  • : pbk

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注記

Bibliography: p. 245-259

Includes index

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巻冊次

: ISBN 9780813317281

内容説明

This study tells how one community-based initiative - Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) in New York - overcame the obstacles of homophobia and fear of AIDS by organizing groups of volunteers who "bear witness" to the suffering of people with AIDS. The book explores the gay community's response to AIDS, examining the relationship between personal motives for volunteering and the broader political, social and religious contexts in which people with AIDS have been largely abandoned. The author is both a sociologist and a volunteer at the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

目次

  • Part 1 AIDS - the issues: getting involved
  • the "sin-stigma" and gay/AIDS volunteerism
  • "morality" and AIDS issues
  • "democratization" and the response to AIDS. Part 2 Ideology - volunteerism and AIDS: volunteerism, community and blaming the victim
  • the political economy of volunteerism and AIDS prevention/education
  • who volunteers?
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780813317298

内容説明

BEARING WITNESS IS A STORY ABOUT HOPE, a statement of faith in the human spirit. By dint of circumstance, it is two stories rolled into one. On the one hand, it is the tale of how volunteerism became the most necessary and reliable response to the political problems caused by AIDS and, on the other, it is a chronicle of how the gay community mobilized itself in the service of transformation to contain and resolve the social, psychological, and spiritual issues that the disease raised.

目次

Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART ONE AIDS: The Issues -- 1 Getting Involved -- 2 The Sin Stigmaand Gay/AIDS Volunteerism -- 3 Morality" and AIDS Issues -- 4 Democratization and the Response to AIDS -- PART TWO Ideology: Volunteerism and AIDS -- 5 Volunteerism, Conununity and Blaming the Victim -- 6 The Political Economy of Volunteerisin and AIDS Prevention/Education -- 7 Who Volunteers: Minority Volunteerism and GMHC -- 8 Gay Volunteerism Before amd After AIDS -- 9 Gay/AIDS Volunteerism: A Question of Altruism? -- 10 Volunteerism and Voluntary Associations -- PART THREE The Significance of Gay/MDS Volunteerism -- 11 GMHC and the Community Interest: Institutionalization and Successful Volunteerism -- 12 GMHC as Organizational Success and Problem -- 13 Homophobia, Bearing Witness, and Empowerment -- 14 Gay/AIDS Volunteerism as Political Innovation -- Epilogue: Toward the Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Author -- Index.

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