Cindy Patton

Cindy Patton (born February 12, 1956) is an American sociologist and historian specializing in the history of the AIDS epidemic. A former faculty member at Temple University and Emory University,[1] she currently teaches at Simon Fraser University, where she held the Canada Research Chair in Community, Culture, and Health from 2003 to 2014.[2] Her work has appeared in Criticism, the Feminist Review, and the International Review of Qualitative Research,[3] and she co-edited a special edition of Cultural Studies on French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.[4]

"Inventing AIDS" redirects here. For the book by Peter Duesberg, see Inventing the AIDS Virus.

Patton is a graduate of Appalachian State University, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts.[2] She received the Stonewall Book Award in 1986 for her book Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS,[5] and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 1991 for Inventing AIDS.[6]

Bibliography
  • Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS (1985)
  • Making It: A Woman's Guide to Sex in the Age of AIDS (1987) (with Janis Kelly)
  • Inventing AIDS (1990)
  • Women and AIDS (1993)
  • Last Served?: Gendering the HIV Pandemic (1994)
  • Fatal Advice: How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong (1996)
  • Cinematic Identity: Anatomy of a Problem Film (1997)
  • Queer Diasporas (2000) (as editor with Benigno Sánchez-Eppler)
  • Globalizing AIDS (2002)

See also

References
  1. Treadaway, Dan (February 1997). "Patton named Emory's first lesbian/gay studies professor". Emory Report. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  2. "Cindy Patton". Simon Fraser University. 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-05-07. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  3. "Author: Cindy Patton". JSTOR. 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  4. Honoring Eve Symposium (2010). "Cindy Patton". Boston University College of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  5. "Stonewall Book Awards". American Library Association. 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  6. "3rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. July 13, 1991. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
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