Simon Watney

""A far-reaching analysis of images of AIDS and homosexuality in the media ... in 'Policing desire', Simon Watley called the media on its own game, and the media actually changed its coverage of AIDS and queer issues" 'Voice Literay Supplement' Since it initial publication, 'Policing desire' has proved to be an unparalleled analysis of 'the cacophony of voices which sounds through every institution of our society on the subject of AIDS'. For the third edition Simon Watney has provided a new preface, a compelling new concluding essay, and a resource directory for AIDS information." -- back cover.

Pornography, AIDS, and the Media

Policing Desire

AIDS and Gay Identity

Imagine Hope

Since the mid-1980s, Britain's Simon Watney has been one of the leading voices in the international field of HIV/AIDS education. Practices of Freedom demonstrates the failure of national institutions, from the government to th e press, to understand and effectively fight this epidemic. Watney directs attention of the most urgent needs in American and international AIDS work.

Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS

Practices of Freedom

For the new editors of this controversial, Watney (School of communications, polytechnic of Central London) has provided a new preface and a new concluding essay that updates his arguments. Watney remains convinced "of the need to address questions concerning the operations of fantasy and the unconscious in relation to our (provisional) understanding of the political and ideological economies of this epidemic, "a provoking, well articulated, and, like Primo Levi's witness," dispassionate attempt to set a horror-inspiring situation down clearly and persuasively. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Bloomsbury in Sussex

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Frances Partridge

Tate Gallery

Noel Gilroy Annan Baron Annan

Deborah Gage

A Record of the Commemoration for Quentin Bell at the Tate Gallery, London on 25th March 1997

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A Man of Many Arts

Bell Hooks

Andrew Perchuk

Helaine Posner

MIT List Visual Arts Center

The Masculine Masquerade explores often-ignored issues of masculinity in the visual arts as well as models and concepts of masculinity in literature, film, and the mass media. Drawing on the work of feminist and gay studies and the work being done in areas of psychology, sociology, and gender studies, the essays analyze the conventional and limited definition of masculinity as a social and cultural construct. They seek to expand that definition to include multiple masculinities and factors such as race, class, ethnicity, and object choice. Helaine Posner, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center, examines masculinity in the contemporary visual arts, including the works of Matthew Barney, Mary Kelly, Lyle Ashton Harris, Clegg & Guttmann, Keith Piper, and Donald Moffett. Andrew Perchuk, independent curator and critic, focuses on the art of the immediate postwar period to investigate T. J. Clark's notion that the terminology surrounding the New York School was expressed in the language of sexual difference, with severe consequences for artists whose work could not be inserted into this narrative. Steven Cohan, Associate Professor of English, Syracuse University, looks at postwar film in The Spy in the Gray Flannel Suit:Gender Performance and the Representation of Masculinity in North by Northwest. Harry Brod, Department of Philosophy, University of Delaware, traces the history of masculinity as masquerade, from classic conceptions of masquerade as distinctly feminine to contemporary theories of gender as performative. bell hooks, Professor of English, City College, investigates the historical definition of black male sex roles and the commodification of blackness through close readings of the films of Eddie Murphy and Spike Lee, among others. Simon Watney, writer, activist, and critic, considers the current and changing impact of AIDS on the gay male community in "Lifelike": Imagining the Bodies of People with AIDS. Finally, Glenn Ligon employs stereotypic images of black men constructed for white pleasure, drawn from 1970s pornographic magazines, and explores the possibility of recovering and transforming these images into non-racist expressions of pleasure and desire. Distributed for the MIT List Visual Arts Center

Masculinity and Representation

The Masculine Masquerade

Presents a chronological selection of Watney's writings from the 1990s, with new contextualising introductory and concluding essays and offers a chronicle of the changing and often confusing course of the epidemic.

Since the mid-1980s, Simon Watney has been one of the leading voices in the international field of HIV/AIDS education. His monthly column on AIDS in Britain's Gay Times is the longest-running column of its kind in Europe, and he is actively involved in HIV/AIDS issues in the United States. His work constitutes a unique dialogue between European and American perspectives on the epidemic. Practices of Freedom brings together for the first time Watney's pioneering writings on topics ranging from gay men's Safer Sex education to racist coverage of AIDS in Africa in the international media, from the ethics of clinical drug trials to governmental policies concerning AIDS. Watney's voice--neither neutral nor detached--is that of an active and influential participant in the fight against AIDS. He offers a unique view of the ways in which gay men working in community-based organizations have attempted to provide reliable and up-to-date services and information regarding AIDS treatment and health. A leader in insisting on gay men's entitlements to education, care, and services, Watney was among the first to challenge the "de-gaying" of AIDS service organizations in the late eighties. He also devotes his attention to HIV/AIDS prevention work, research and treatment issues, and the wider cultural politics of the disease, including the role of language, television, and cinema. His analysis of the epidemic as it has unfolded provides a history of many of the major medical and political debates that have defined the course and extent of the crisis. Practices of Freedom demonstrates the failure of national institutions, from the government to the press, to understand and effectively fight this epidemic, and directs attention to the most urgent needs in American and international AIDS work. It will be an important primary resource, particularly in the United States, where effective community-based HIV/AIDS education tragically has often been neglected.

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