Women Take Care
Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS
Self-sacrificing mothers and forgiving wives, caretaking lesbians, and vigilant maternal surrogates-these good women are all familiar figures in the visual and print culture relating to AIDS. In a probing critique of that culture, Katie Hogan demonstrates ways in which literary and popular works use the classic image of the nurturing female to render queer AIDS more acceptable, while consigning women to conventional roles and reinforcing the idea that everyone with this disease is somehow suspect.In times of crisis, the figure of the idealized woman who is modest and selfless has repeatedly surfaced in Western culture as a balm and a source o…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5017-2568-5
- EAN: 9781501725685
- Produktnummer: 28011369
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Katie Hogan
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