Border crossings and mestiza consciousness in AIDS art in the US: a content analysis

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dc.contributor.advisorBardwell-Jones, Celia
dc.contributor.authorBarr, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Women's and Gender Studies
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-17T19:17:37Z
dc.date.available2015-12-17T19:17:37Z
dc.date.issued2012-04-19
dc.date.submitted2011-05
dc.description(M.S.) -- Towson University, 2011.
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I argue that "the AIDS body" faces a crisis of representation. Mainstream representations of the AIDS body work through discourses of sexism, homophobia, and racism to "other" the AIDS body and create arbitrary "borders." I discuss the inadequacies of many US feminist responses to AIDS: namely, their insistence on an oppositional framework that ultimately limited these responses. I suggest that Chicana feminisms offer a framework for action that might broaden the possibilities of feminist response to the AIDS crisis. This framework includes mestiza consciousness and "border"-crossing. AIDS art is one place where the crisis of representation can be addressed and resolved. I undertake an analysis of AIDS art in the US to show that AIDS art can cross "borders" and cultivate mestiza consciousness in such a way as to resolve the crisis of representation faced by the AIDS body.
dc.description.tableofcontentsFeminism, AIDS and the borderlands -- Initial artistic responses to AIDS in the US -- Contemporary AIDS art in the US
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dc.format.extentvii, 100 pages
dc.genretheses
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M27M69
dc.identifier.otherTSP2011Barr
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/1899
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.titleBorder crossings and mestiza consciousness in AIDS art in the US: a content analysis
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