Northwestern University
Deadline: February 15, 2011
The Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University invites applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in social scientific approaches to sexuality studies, to run September 2011 – August 2013. Click here for details (PDF).
The Committee is sponsoring or co-sponsoring nine sessions at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Boston, next January 6-9. Please click here for the full listing of participants, papers, and times and locations, as well as details regarding the annual reception and business meeting.
Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis
Jennifer Brier
UNC Press, 2009
Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, Jennifer Brier provides rich, new understandings of the United States’ complex social and political trends in the post-1960s era. Brier describes how AIDS workers–in groups as disparate as the gay and lesbian press, AIDS service organizations, private philanthropies, and the State Department–influenced American politics, especially on issues such as gay and lesbian rights, reproductive health, racial justice, and health care policy, even in the face of the expansion of the New Right. Infectious Ideas places recent social, cultural, and political events in a new light, making an important contribution to our understanding of the United States at the end of the twentieth century.