AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Writing Corporealities) - Hardcover

Waldby, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041514129X ISBN 13: 9780415141291

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Review:

""AIDS and the Body Politic traces the fascinating yet disturbing shape of how culturally desirable is the clean, self-identical and sharply bounded (male) body, protected against infection, and how culturally horrifying are open, uncontrolled (female and gay male) bodies, prone to collecting and proliferating infection. This work is an important and fresh analysis of how cultural material informs biomedical and epidemiological models and measures.." -"Emily Martin

Synopsis:

Catherine Waldby's informative study draws on feminist theory, cultural studies, the philosophy of science and gay and lesbian studies to problematise the factual scientific discourse about AIDS and interpret it as a political discourse. Waldby argues that much AIDS discourse relies on an implicit and unconscious equation between sexual health and heterosexual masculinity. In this equation between women, bisexual and gay men are the targets of preventative programmes, while heterosexual men tend to remain unaddressed by such programmes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 041514129X
• ISBN 13: 9780415141291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184