Theoretical Sources Paragraph Post

 

Gould, Deborah B.. Moving Politics : Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS. University of Chicago Press, 2009. 24 October 2016. <http://www.myilibrary.com?ID=244560> Theoretical. Scholarly Source.

• Explain what the source is: This source is a book called Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS. It was written my Deborah Gould, published by the University of Chicago, and published in 2009. The book articulates the theoretical strategies utilized by ACT UP to fight the AIDS pandemic. The book develops the rhetorical context by explaining why ACT UP waiting until the late 1980's to begin the fight against AIDS. The target audience is a scholarly audience looking to further understand the fight against AIDS.
• Throughout the first part of the novel Gould discusses emotion and how it led to the mobilization of ACT UP. Emotion how it relates to the fight against AIDS is a framework that describes why ACT UP mobilized the way it did. 

 When discussing ACT UP's movement it is imperative to identify why ACT UP began mobilization when they did. After thousands of people had already passed away from HIV/AIDS, and Ronald Reagan waited years before he even addressed the pandemic, ACT UP mobilized in the streets. In Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS Gould argues that what mobilized, or gave motion, to the ACT UP's fight against AIDS was a commonly felt emotion: despair. The amount of death seen by the gay community became very personal. Lovers, friends. and whole communities were diminishing. The pain felt by the gay community was seemingly unbearable, and the lack of representation instilled anger in the LGBT community. In 1987, something had to be done.