AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Writing Corporealities) [Paperback]

Catherine Waldby (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 22, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0415141303 | ISBN-13: 978-0415141307

This book demonstates the extent to which establis hed ideas about the virus, the immune system, the HIV test and the epidemiology of the disease rely upon unexamined, conservative assumptions about sexual identity and sexual difference.

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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

About the Author

Catherine Waldby has published extensively in the areas of feminist theory and the politics of health and sexuality. She currently teaches in the Communications and Cultural Studies program and the Women's Studies program at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Routledge (September 22, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415141303
• ISBN-13: 978-0415141307
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,538,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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