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Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No To Cosmo
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Title
Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No To Cosmo
Subject
AIDS, activist video, documentary, woman filmmaker,
Description
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018.
"This spectacular David and Goliath story unfolds on the streets of New York, as the first action of the Women’s Committee in ACT UP takes on Cosmopolitan magazine. In January of 1988 Cosmo published a dangerously misleading article on the transmission of AIDS for women. Written by psychiatrist Robert E. Gould, the article claimed that, “There is almost no danger of contracting AIDS through ordinary sexual [heterosexual] intercourse.” Jean Carlomusto documents the women who stood up to the mammoth magazine conglomerate and questioned Dr. Gould and his qualifications with perseverance, dedication, and bravery." (MoMA)
"This spectacular David and Goliath story unfolds on the streets of New York, as the first action of the Women’s Committee in ACT UP takes on Cosmopolitan magazine. In January of 1988 Cosmo published a dangerously misleading article on the transmission of AIDS for women. Written by psychiatrist Robert E. Gould, the article claimed that, “There is almost no danger of contracting AIDS through ordinary sexual [heterosexual] intercourse.” Jean Carlomusto documents the women who stood up to the mammoth magazine conglomerate and questioned Dr. Gould and his qualifications with perseverance, dedication, and bravery." (MoMA)
Date
1988
Moving Image Item Type Metadata
Duration
00:22:57
Director
Jean Carlomusto and Maria Magenti, GMHC
URL
Files
Citation
“Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No To Cosmo,” VHS Activism Archive , accessed April 23, 2024, https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/840.
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