AIDS in French Culture

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AIDS in French Culture is written by David Caron and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0299172937 (ISBN 10) and 9780299172930 (ISBN 13).

The deluge of metaphors triggered in 1981 in France by the first public reports of what would turn out to be the AIDS epidemic spread with far greater speed and efficiency than the virus itself. To understand why it took France so long to react to the AIDS crisis, AIDS in French Culture analyzes the intersections of three discourses—the literary, the medical, and the political—and traces the origin of French attitudes about AIDS back to nineteenth-century anxieties about nationhood, masculinity, and sexuality.