The Aids Quilt in Prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4052839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily K Hobson |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 2024 |
| Issue | 148 |
| Pages | 9-29 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-10846780 |
| OpenAlex | W4391407896 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article examines AIDS activism in women's prisons in the 1980s and 1990s United States through a focus on incarcerated women's creation and display of panels for the AIDS Quilt. It argues that AIDS Quilt panels made in prison reflected the potential of incarcerated activists to use creative expression as a tool of illustrating and exercising care work inside and against the carceral state. This care work challenged the convergence of state abandonment and state violence that helped define the Reagan-Bush and Clinton eras, and it articulated the issue of women and HIV/AIDS as a problem both of illness and of caregiving
Art · Criminology · Prison · Quilt · Sociology · Visual arts · American Political and Social Dynamics · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |