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Lisa Diedrich - Indirect Action - 9781517900007 - V9781517900007
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Indirect Action

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Description for Indirect Action hardcover. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.

The experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa Diedrich explores how and why illness was indeed so significant to the social, political, and institutional transformation beginning in the 1960s through the emergence of AIDS in the United States. A rich intervention—both theoretical and methodological, political and therapeutic—Indirect Action illuminates the intersection of illness, thought, and politics.

Not merely a revision of the history of this time period, Indirect Action expands the historiographical boundaries through which illness and health ... Read more

Indirect Action places illness in the leading role in the production of thought during the emergence of AIDS, ultimately showing the critical interconnectedness of illness and political and critical thought.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press United Kingdom
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9781517900007
SKU
V9781517900007
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
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About Lisa Diedrich
Lisa Diedrich is associate professor of women’s and gender studies at State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author of Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness (Minnesota, 2007).

Reviews for Indirect Action
"Complex yet disarmingly candid, Indirect Action queers the process of history itself, offering a politics of indirectness that is still action, of remembering that doesn't overshadow. Lisa Diedrich is skilled at presenting a turn of thought or analytic term with extraordinary precision and historical weight."—Catherine Belling, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine "Moving through several sites that link illness, ... Read more

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