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AIDS and Its Metaphors
by Susan Sontag
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374102570
- ISBN 13
- 9780374102579
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. Signed. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. Signed by Susan Sontag on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine head gently pushed. The textblock has the previous owner's name on endpaper, but clean with no bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Light toning to endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($14.95) very faint wear to the spine head, Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 95 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall.
The idea behind both "Illness as Metaphor" and "AIDS and Its Metaphors" is that society's response to diseases that it does not yet understand is to construct fantasies about them. The metaphorical packaging of AIDS, she argues, increases the suffering of the afflicted while creating unneeded anxiety among the population at large. The disease is felt to be obscene, its name becomes a curse, its diagnosis a death sentence. The stigma and fantasies attached to the disease literally kill because they discourage patients from aggressively asking the questions and seeking the treatment that might save their lives.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4377
- Title
- AIDS and Its Metaphors
- Author
- Susan Sontag
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374102570
- ISBN 13
- 9780374102579
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 95
- Size
- 5.5 x 8.5
- Keywords
- essay, aids, social stigma
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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Armadillo Alley Books
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