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

by Jeffrey A. Bennett

Book Overview

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"