AIDS and the body politic : biomedicine and sexual difference
"Why have women and gay men become the targets of AIDS education, while heterosexual men are exempt? AIDS and the Body Politic addresses the relationship between medical discourse and the sexual politics of AIDS. Catherine Waldby's informative study draws on feminist theory, cultural studies, the philosophy of science and gay and lesbian studies to problematise 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. Biomedical discourse sets out the heterosexual male body as a normative ideal, which renders other kinds of bodies inherently pathological. Drawing upon examples of preventative policies from Australia, Britain and the USA, Waldby investigates the concept of public health and questions whose interest are represented in a a 'healthy society'."--Page [4] of cover
Print Book, English, 1996
Routledge, London, 1996