1st Edition

Body Politics Disease, Desire, And The Family

By Michael Ryan Copyright 1994
    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book looks at the physical and metaphorical attributes of the human body as a site of contention, politics, and cultural protest. It discusses a range of issues, from torture and moral panics to the "AIDS plague" and the homosocial subtexts of George Bush's political speeches.

    Introduction -- Disease, War, & The Family -- The Politics of the “Gay Plague”: AIDS as a U.S. Ideology -- Fatal Abstraction: The Death and Sinister Afterlife of the American Family -- Not in Our Name: Women, War, AIDS -- The Meaning of Property: Real Estate, Class Position, and the Ideology of Home Ownership -- Homelessness and Poststructuralist Theory -- Orphans’ Dreams: Panic Wars and the Postmodern -- Drugs Hysteria Pain -- A Short History of the Parasite Cafe -- James Bond and Immanuel Kant’s War on Drugs: A Nosography and Nosegrammatics of Male Hysteria -- AlphaBet City: The Politics of Pharmacology -- The Broken Self: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Native American Selfhood -- Political Bodies -- George Bush, or Homosocial Politics -- Postmortem on the Presidential Body, or Where the Rest of Him Went -- Torture, Knowledge, & The State -- Subjected Bodies, Science, and the State: Francis Bacon, Torturer -- Body Memories: Aide-Memoires and Collective Amnesia in the Wake of the Argentine Terror -- The Official Story: Response to Julie Taylor -- The Electronic Body at the End of the State: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Japanese Emperor System -- Alternities -- Toni Negri’s Practical Philosophy -- The Physiology of Counter-Power: When Socialism Is Impossible and Communism So Near -- Possible Worlds: An Interview with Donna Haraway -- Frankenstein’s Dream: Constitutional Revision and Social Design, or How to Build a Body Politic