Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis shows readers how the advent of HIV-disease has brought into question the utility of certain forms of activism as they relate to understanding and fighting the social impacts of disease. This informative and powerful book is centrally concerned about the ways in which institutionally governed social constructions of HIV/AIDS affect policy and public images of the disease more so than activist efforts. It asserts that an accounting of the power institutional structures have over the dominant social constructions of HIV disease is fundamental to...

This monograph is identical, and published simultaneously, with Journal of homosexuality, v.21, nos.1/2. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Demonstrates how, despite the AIDS activism of the past decade, concerns of those who are HIV-positive are still being marginalized and exploited, and asserts that activism has not been an effective remedy to HIV-positive voicelessness. Discusses how messages about AIDS/HIV are produced and sustai t

Disproving the notion that homosexuals are antifamily, this enlightening book details the variety of family forms in which gays and lesbians live and explores the effects of homosexuality on individuals in families and on the family as a whole. Little in the professional literature addresses the combined topics of homosexuality and the family, so practitioners, academicians, researchers, and students in various disciplines--counseling, gay studies, sociology, human sexuality, psychology, social work, law, and medicine--will discover a wealth of unique and useful material here. Arranged in a...