Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance

by Jeffrey A. Bennett

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In Banning Queer Blood, Jeffrey Bennett frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship. However, with the advent of AIDS came the notion of blood donation as a potentially dangerous process. Bennett argues that the Food and Drug Administration, by employing images that specifically depict gay men as contagious, has categorized gay men as a menace to the nation. The FDA's ban on blood donation...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0817316647

ISBN13:9780817316648

Release Date:July 2009

Publisher:University Alabama Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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