Banning queer blood : rhetorics of citizenship, contagion, and resistance

Author

Bennett, Jeffrey A. (Jeffrey Allen), 1974-

Title

Banning queer blood : rhetorics of citizenship, contagion, and resistance / Jeffrey A. Bennett.

Format

Book

Published

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

Description

xi, 195 p. ; 24 cm.

Uniform series

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Queer citizenship and the stigma of banned blood
• Articulating abjection : negating citizenships of sacrifice and reproduction
• AIDS memory, medicinal prudence, and the construction of social denial
• Diseased citizenship and the rhetoric of scientific deliberation
• Passing, protesting, and the arts of resistance : infiltrating the ritual space of blood donation
• A radical tolerance of experimentation.

Kinsey subjects

Homosexuality--Male.
Homosexuals and AIDS.
Homosexuals civil liberties.
Social conditions--20th century--United States.

ISBN

9780817316648 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817316647 (cloth : alk. paper)