Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter iii
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note on the Text xiii
5. Prologue 1
6. 1. AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification 11
7. 2. The Burdens of History: Gender and Representation in AIDS Discourse, I981-I988 42
8. 3. AIDS and HIV Infection in the Third World: A First World Chronicle 99
9. 4. Seduced and Terrorized: AIDS in the Media 127
10. 5. AIDS, HIV, and the Cultural Construction of Reality 149
11. 6. AIDS Narratives on Television: Whose Story? 176
12. 7. AIDS, Africa, and Cultural Theory 205
13. 8. Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, Identity, and Inscriptions of Gender 235
14. 9. How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: The Evolution of AIDS, Treatment, and Activism 278
15. Epilogue 315
16. Notes 331
17. Bibliography 387
18. Index 453