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The Art of AIDS Prevention: Cultural Responses to HIV/AIDS in Australia and the United States

Key Works

The books and articles listed below provide a theoretical and practical introduction to the cultural responses to HIV/AIDS in Australia, Britain and the United States.

Rob Baker, The Art of AIDS: From Stigma to Conscience, New York: Continuum, 1994.

Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.

Douglas Crimp (ed.), AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.

Douglas Crimp, 'Portraits of People with AIDS', in Lawrence Grossberg, Gary Nelson and Paula A. Treichler (eds), Cultural Studies, New York, 1992, pp.117-33.

Jan Zita Grover, 'AIDS: Keywords', in Douglas Crimp (ed.), AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988, pp.17-30.

Paula A. Treichler, How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS, Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.

David Gere, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

Sander L. Gilman, Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988, pp.245-72.

Ted Gott (ed.), Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1995.

Gabriele Griffin, Representations of HIV and AIDS: Visibility Blue/s, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000

Deborah Lupton, Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires: AIDS in the News Media, London: SAGE, 1994.

Paul Sendziuk, Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2003.

Simon Watney, Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media, London: Comedia, 1987.

Simon Watney, Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS, London: Rivers Oram Press, 1994.

Andrea Vaucher, Muses From Chaos and Ash: AIDS, Artists and Art, Grove Press, 1993.

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Text by Paul Sendziuk, who retains copyright (c) 2007.