AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference

by Catherine Waldby

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415141291
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/1996
Series:	Writing Corporealities Ser.
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1560L (what's this?)

About the Author

Catherine Waldby currently teaches in the Communications and Cultural Studies programme and the Women’s Studies programme at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.

Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION: TOTAL WAR 2 THE BIOMEDICAL IMAGINATION AND THE ANATOMICAL BODY: AIDS AND THE NATURE/ CULTURE DISTINCTION 3 THE PRIMAL SCENE OF IMMUNOLOGY 4 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND THE BODY POLITIC 5 TECHNOLOGIES OF THE BODY POLITIC: THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST 6 CONCLUSION: SEXUAL IDENTITY AND CONTAMINATION