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Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance - Rhetoric, Culture, and, Social Critique Jeffrey A. Bennett
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Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance - Rhetoric, Culture, and, Social Critique
Jeffrey A. Bennett
Frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship. This book 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.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 30, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780817316648 |
| Publishers | The University of Alabama Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 228 × 22 mm · 489 g |
| Series Editor | Lucaites, John Louis |