{"product_id":"the-specter-of-aids-paperback","title":"The Specter of AIDS - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJorge Sánchez Cruz\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eNéstor Perlongher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Specter of AIDS\u003c\/i\u003e is a transdisciplinary text originally written in 1980s Brasil in a time of pandemic emergency. It situates how HIV\/AIDS reconfigured intimacy, sexuality, and power while also providing a minoritarian theory of desire lived by dissident sexualities in 1980s Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerlongher's paper exposes a new barometer of life undergirded by medico-scientific reason, religious ideology, and morality - in other words, a re-actualization and intensification of normative reason. In nuanced prose combined with wit, rigorous scholarship, political alertness, and poetics, Perlongher delineates how HIV\/AIDS serves as a blueprint for how viral threats shed light on the inequitable unevenness of this world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in Portuguese in 1987 and then published in Spanish in 1988, this translation offers an un\/timely reading for the 21st century as it shows how new contaminants threaten national public health's paradigms of gendered and racialized structures: their borders, bodies, and good comportment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67849746383155,"sku":"9781685713454","price":36.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/r4DGXsaYFO9781685713454.webp?v=1793503859","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-specter-of-aids-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}