Experience intime et action collective : sexualite, maladie et lutte contre le sida

Intimate experience and collective action. Sexuality, illness and fight against aids

• Auteur / Autrice : Philippe Adam
• Direction : Claudine Herzlich
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Sociologie
• Date : Soutenance en 1997
• Etablissement(s) : Paris, EHESS

Mots clés

Mots clés contrôlés

Prévention de la transmission sexuelle du sida

Homosexualité

Associations

France

Sida

Résumé

Les associations de lutte contre le sida sont au centre du travail de these. Cette recherche analyse en effet la facon dont se sont developpes, a partir du monde social homosexuel, une mobilisation et un univers de lutte contre le sida. La diversite des positions sociales, des modes de vie socio-sexuels et des etats de sante des volontaires produit de la differenciation sociale au sein des associations. Selon leurs profils, les volontaires souhaitent developper des options de lutte contre le sida differentes (qu'elles soient ''universalistes'' ou au contraire communautaires) et des activites specifiques (prevention ou soutien). Ainsi, dans le domaine de la prevention, les experiences sociales et intimes des divers groupes d'intervenants alimentent des modeles concurrents de gestion collective de l'epidemie.

The present research analyses the french non governmental movement of the fight against aids. Its birth derived from the french gay movement which pre-existed before the 1980's. Nevertheless, the new movement cannot be restricted to the factor of sexual orientation as not all homosexuals take part to the new engagement. Besides, even among gay volunteers, a great variety in terms of class status, sexual experiences and serological status appears. Precisely, this diversity played a major part in the development of the aids movement. Some of the volunteers wanted to promote a communitarist approch to fighting against aids, whereas others (who generally shared a higher social status and who were less integrated in the gay world) were not preoccupied only with the problems of gay men but with the whole population. Thus, this research analyses how the intimate experiences of the gay volunteers, those related with their personal experience of homosexuality, influence their political opinions and strategies for fighting against aids. Moreover, in the particular field of prevention, the private experiences (both social and intimate) of the volunteers happen to influence the rules of prevention that they want to promote.