Cindy Patton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cindy Patton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cindy |
| FAMILY NAME | Patton |
| SIGNATURE | PATTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Autoimmunities after Covid: An Interview with Cindy Patton
Cindy Patton is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. An early AIDS activist in Boston, she holds a PhD in Communications from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After inaugurating her academic career at Temple University (Rhetoric and Community) and Emory University (Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts), she accepted a Canada Research Chair in Community, Culture and Health at …
Funny Thing about Pandemics: Queer Histories, Interventions and Communities in HIV, Covid-19, and Mpox
Andrew Spieldenner [AS]: Let's talk about pandemics. We've both worked in the HIV pandemic, which I guess is largest and longest standing pandemic of our lifetimes, at least until the emergence of COVID, which is ongoing still.Cindy Patton [CP]: You mean it's not over???AS: Funny thing about pandemics!CP: Yes. It's been interesting to watch the COVID pandemic policies in British Columbia—some of our public health leaders still do not really accep…
White Men Spitting
Acknowledging feminist contributions to the critiques of medicine, labor, and representation in light of the COVID pandemic, this essay moves in a different direction to consider recent examples of the (dis)regulation of men’s emotional display. The essay considers broader cultural distinctions about which forms of spitting are socially acceptable, linking the much-publicized media gaffe by the prime minister of Canada (who advised against “speak…
Stealth Bombers of Desire: The Globalization of “Alterity” in Emerging Democracies
L’industrie des services sida: La construction des « victimes », des « volontaires » et des « experts » [1990]
Cindy Patton s’attache à décrire la façon dont la classification des populations les plus affectées par le sida aux États-Unis au début des années 1980 est élaborée à partir de représentations antérieures à l’épidémie largement empreintes d’homophobie et de racisme. Elle étudie également la manière dont la prévention et le soutien aux malades a pris des formes différenciées selon les publics. Les communautés homosexuelles ont en effet développé u…
Love Without the Obligation to Love
Love Without the Obligation to Love1 Cindy Patton (bio) It’s frightening to feel so little attachment to a life that’s so full of the things other people long for—rightly long for, I think: a lot of intimacy, enough money, peace and privacy, intellectual stimulation, plenty of recognition, time for my own work, no violence, both parents living, mostly good health, a long, tender relationship with my fella, oodles of terrific friends. . . . It’s n…
Real Sports
Real Sports Cindy Patton (bio) Falling I sit in the middle of a wide, rocky riverbed, a maze of knee- to thigh-deep channels, 3 to 8 meters wide snake around me. This is the only place from which I can make radio contact with the four checkpoints I coordinate. I am here to serve as traffic control: teams pass in both directions and are restricted from crossing the river where it narrows to a single, swift and dangerous channel below me. In settin…
Aging with HIV: Historical and Intra-Community Differences in Experience of Aging with HIV
Gay men living with HIV/AIDS face a complex of health issues, including those associated with the aging process, long-term HIV infection (25 years or more), and side effects from Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART). If aging can increase marginalization, this is more likely for the aging HIV positive gay man, who is already marginalized for being queer and living with a stigmatizing disease. This article presents findings from a study o…
Finding “Fields” in the Field: Normalcy, Risk, and Ethnographic Inquiry
The author revisits the work of a research team on which she served in the early 1990s to show why researchers have difficulty recognizing that social identities are not only heterologo U.S. (referring to different objects), but also heteromorphic (formed in different ways). While activists have eventually convinced researchers that sexuality has many different contexts and meanings, most health educators apply this insight by simply increasing t…
Mobile Knowledge: HIV Patients’ Encounter with Endocrinology
Tracing the movement of new medical information from the laboratory to individual consumers is a challenge to communications theorists and social scientists alike. This article adopts the position of the social study of medicine, which takes into account the impact of people’s perceptions of disease on treatment decisions and outcomes, to locate instances of the movement of information—and its limitations—in a unique setting: a metabolic disorder…
Mapping Stairwell Accessibility in Vancouver’s Downtown Core
Last Served?
Following a decade in which the focus on HIV and AIDS has been on specific social groups, a shift in professional perceptions has resulted in a change in the images of women and HIV/AIDS. "Last Served?" recognizes and analyzes the trend toward more openly acknowledging and planning for women in the pandemic. Rather than enumerating the effects on women of confused or conflicting policies and representation, the book details why and how this situa…
Outlaw territory: Criminality, neighborhoods, and the Edward Savitz case
Legislating the pandemic: A global survey of HIV/Aids in criminal law
Introduction to special issue: Reckless vectors: The infecting “other” in HIV/Aids law
Introduction: Bourdieu And Cultural Studies
Rock Hard: Judging the Female Physique
Spectatorship theory has been much used and much critiqued as a means of understanding the gendering of 'the look' and its object. The article revitalizes spectatorship theory to understand the way in which gender and looking create an ethical problem in the practice of judging-in this case, judging bodybuilding during the sport's crisis over the proper female body in the early 1990s. The article also explores some of the controversies about spor…
Introduction: Helping Ourselves: Research after (the) Enlightenment
Introduction Citizenship 2000
How to Do Things With Sound
Recent work in gender/queer theory has developed J. L. Austin's notion of performativity to account for the compulsive and repetitive construction of gender as a kind of ‘performance’. This work has failed to examine the role of ‘sound’ in Austin's theory, with important consequences for our understanding of the basis of such an ‘ordinary’ communicative event. This article compares the problems which Austin raises for the securing of communicativ…
On Me, Not in Me: Locating Affect in Nationalism after Aids
Throughout the 1980s, the American right wing attempted to control the field of social politics and social policy through a rhetoric of 'family'. In response, the left, including much of the lesbian and gay movement, abandoned an early, theorized antipathy to family, attempting to recapture the political field with ideas like 'alternative families' and 'families we chose'. These moves do not sufficiently account for the hidden glue that binds bod…
Women Resisting Aids: Feminist Strategies of Empowerment
Fatal Advice: How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong
The American public responded to the first cases of AIDS with fear and panic. Both policymakers and activists were concerned not only with stopping the spread of the disease, but also with guiding the public's response toward those already infected. Fatal Advice is an examination of how the nation attempted, with mixed results, to negotiate the fears and concerns brought on by the epidemic. A leading writer on the cultural politics of AIDS, Cindy…
Queer Space/God's Space: Counting Down to the Apocalypse
Refiguring social space
the principles consistently advocated by the civil rights movement for two centuries following the American Revolution – individual rights and equality under law – ... which were abandoned in the mid-1960s by the modern civil rights establishment, translate neatly into a viable, forward-looking civil rights program that can at once counter the left's agenda while it confronts the civil rights issues that exist today.Clint Bolick, “A Conservative …
Rock Hard: Judging the Female Physique
Spectatorship theory has been much used and much critiqued as a means of understanding the gendering of 'the look' and its object. The article revitalizes spectatorship theory to understand the way in which gender and looking create an ethical problem in the practice of judging-in this case, judging bodybuilding during the sport's crisis over the proper female body in the early 1990s. The article also explores some of the controversies about spor…
Queer Space/God's Space: Counting Down to the Apocalypse
Finding “Fields” in the Field: Normalcy, Risk, and Ethnographic Inquiry
The author revisits the work of a research team on which she served in the early 1990s to show why researchers have difficulty recognizing that social identities are not only heterologo U.S. (referring to different objects), but also heteromorphic (formed in different ways). While activists have eventually convinced researchers that sexuality has many different contexts and meanings, most health educators apply this insight by simply increasing t…
Introduction to special issue: Reckless vectors: The infecting “other” in HIV/Aids law
Legislating the pandemic: A global survey of HIV/Aids in criminal law
Introduction: Bourdieu And Cultural Studies
Outlaw territory: Criminality, neighborhoods, and the Edward Savitz case
Introduction Citizenship 2000
On Me, Not in Me: Locating Affect in Nationalism after Aids
Throughout the 1980s, the American right wing attempted to control the field of social politics and social policy through a rhetoric of 'family'. In response, the left, including much of the lesbian and gay movement, abandoned an early, theorized antipathy to family, attempting to recapture the political field with ideas like 'alternative families' and 'families we chose'. These moves do not sufficiently account for the hidden glue that binds bod…
Aging with HIV: Historical and Intra-Community Differences in Experience of Aging with HIV
Gay men living with HIV/AIDS face a complex of health issues, including those associated with the aging process, long-term HIV infection (25 years or more), and side effects from Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART). If aging can increase marginalization, this is more likely for the aging HIV positive gay man, who is already marginalized for being queer and living with a stigmatizing disease. This article presents findings from a study o…
Introduction: Helping Ourselves: Research after (the) Enlightenment
Mapping: Lesbians, Aids and Sexuality
Aids: Lessons from the Gay Community
Theoretical work on the cultural implications of AIDS arises from the work of academics and activists using both feminist and gay liberation theories. Feminist and gay liberationist theorists are concerned with gender and sexuality, though the theories of ten prioritize one over the other. Feminism has tended to view gay men as oppressed to the extent that they are 'like women', and gay liberation has often had difficulty distinguishing between t…
Aids: Lessons from the Gay Community
Theoretical work on the cultural implications of AIDS arises from the work of academics and activists using both feminist and gay liberation theories. Feminist and gay liberationist theorists are concerned with gender and sexuality, though the theories of ten prioritize one over the other. Feminism has tended to view gay men as oppressed to the extent that they are 'like women', and gay liberation has often had difficulty distinguishing between t…
Power and the conditions of silence
Mapping: Lesbians, Aids and Sexuality
Cindy: I'd like to talk first about the history of safe sex in particular about the lesbian safe sex discussion, and how it's developed. It was in San Francisco, in late 1985 or early 1986, that the SF AIDS Foundation decided to do what became the first brochure on safe sex for lesbians. When you read the brochure now it feels like a gay male brochure changed to fit the technicalities needed to correspond to lesbians, rather than written from the…
Mapping: Lesbians, Aids and Sexuality
Aids Review: Inventing Aids
Last Served: Gendering the HIV Pandemic
Following a decade in which the focus on HIV and AIDS has been on specific social groups, a shift in professional perceptions has resulted in a change in the images of women and HIV/AIDS. Last Served? recognizes and analyzes the trend toward more openly acknowledging and planning for women in the pandemic. Rather than enumerating the effects on women of confused or conflicting policies and representation, the book details why and how this situati…
Last served: Gendering the HIV pandemic
Refiguring social space
the principles consistently advocated by the civil rights movement for two centuries following the American Revolution – individual rights and equality under law – ... which were abandoned in the mid-1960s by the modern civil rights establishment, translate neatly into a viable, forward-looking civil rights program that can at once counter the left's agenda while it confronts the civil rights issues that exist today.Clint Bolick, “A Conservative …
White Racism/Black Signs: Censorship and Images of Race Relations
Journal Article White Racism/Black Signs: Censorship and Images of Race Relations Get access Cindy Patton Cindy Patton 1Cindy Patton is assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Communication at Temple University, Philadelphia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 2, June 1995, Pages 65–77, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb00728.x Published: 07 Fe…
Fatal Advice: How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong
The American public responded to the first cases of AIDS with fear and panic. Both policymakers and activists were concerned not only with stopping the spread of the disease, but also with guiding the public's response toward those already infected. Fatal Advice is an examination of how the nation attempted, with mixed results, to negotiate the fears and concerns brought on by the epidemic. A leading writer on the cultural politics of AIDS, Cindy…
Queer Space/God's Space: Counting Down to the Apocalypse
Women Resisting Aids: Feminist Strategies of Empowerment
On Me, Not in Me: Locating Affect in Nationalism after Aids
Throughout the 1980s, the American right wing attempted to control the field of social politics and social policy through a rhetoric of 'family'. In response, the left, including much of the lesbian and gay movement, abandoned an early, theorized antipathy to family, attempting to recapture the political field with ideas like 'alternative families' and 'families we chose'. These moves do not sufficiently account for the hidden glue that binds bod…
How to Do Things With Sound
Recent work in gender/queer theory has developed J. L. Austin's notion of performativity to account for the compulsive and repetitive construction of gender as a kind of ‘performance’. This work has failed to examine the role of ‘sound’ in Austin's theory, with important consequences for our understanding of the basis of such an ‘ordinary’ communicative event. This article compares the problems which Austin raises for the securing of communicativ…
Introduction: Helping Ourselves: Research after (the) Enlightenment
Introduction Citizenship 2000
Rock Hard: Judging the Female Physique
Spectatorship theory has been much used and much critiqued as a means of understanding the gendering of 'the look' and its object. The article revitalizes spectatorship theory to understand the way in which gender and looking create an ethical problem in the practice of judging-in this case, judging bodybuilding during the sport's crisis over the proper female body in the early 1990s. The article also explores some of the controversies about spor…
Introduction: Bourdieu And Cultural Studies
Last Served?
Following a decade in which the focus on HIV and AIDS has been on specific social groups, a shift in professional perceptions has resulted in a change in the images of women and HIV/AIDS. "Last Served?" recognizes and analyzes the trend toward more openly acknowledging and planning for women in the pandemic. Rather than enumerating the effects on women of confused or conflicting policies and representation, the book details why and how this situa…
Outlaw territory: Criminality, neighborhoods, and the Edward Savitz case
Legislating the pandemic: A global survey of HIV/Aids in criminal law
Introduction to special issue: Reckless vectors: The infecting “other” in HIV/Aids law
Mapping Stairwell Accessibility in Vancouver’s Downtown Core
Mobile Knowledge: HIV Patients’ Encounter with Endocrinology
Tracing the movement of new medical information from the laboratory to individual consumers is a challenge to communications theorists and social scientists alike. This article adopts the position of the social study of medicine, which takes into account the impact of people’s perceptions of disease on treatment decisions and outcomes, to locate instances of the movement of information—and its limitations—in a unique setting: a metabolic disorder…
Aging with HIV: Historical and Intra-Community Differences in Experience of Aging with HIV
Gay men living with HIV/AIDS face a complex of health issues, including those associated with the aging process, long-term HIV infection (25 years or more), and side effects from Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART). If aging can increase marginalization, this is more likely for the aging HIV positive gay man, who is already marginalized for being queer and living with a stigmatizing disease. This article presents findings from a study o…
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