Body politics : disease, desire, and the family / [electronic resource] edited by Michael Ryan & Avery Gordon. - Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1994. - xiii, 289 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Politics and culture ; 1 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Politics of the 'gay plague': AIDS as a U.S. ideology / Henry Abelove -- Fatal abstraction: the death and sinister afterlife of the American family / Nancy Armstrong -- Not in our name: women, war, AIDS / Ann Cvetkovich & Avery Gordon -- The Meaning of property: real estate, class position, and the ideology of home ownership / Pierre Bourdieu & Monique de Saint Martin -- Homelessness and poststructuralist theory / Dennis Crow -- Orphans' dreams: panic wars and the postmodern / Jackie Orr & Stephen Pfohl -- A Short History of the Parasite Cafe / Stephen Pfohl -- James Bond and Immanuel Kant's war on drugs: a nosography and nosegrammatics of male hysteria / Mark Driscoll -- AlphaBet city: the politics of pharmacology / Maurizio Viano -- The Broken self: fetal alcohol syndrome and Native American selfhood / Margit Stange -- George Bush, or homosocial politics / Thomas Dumm -- Postmortem on the presidential body, or where the rest of him went / Brian Massumi & Kenneth Dean -- Subjected bodies, science, and the state: Francis Bacon, torturer / Page DuBois -- Body memories: aide-memoires and collective amnesia in the wake of the Argentine terror / Julie Taylor -- The Official story: response to Julie Taylor / George E. Marcus -- The Electronic body at the end of the state: ethnicity, national identity, and the Japanese emperor system / Tetsuo Kogawa -- Toni Negri's practical philosophy / Michael Hardt -- The Physiology of counter-power: when socialism is impossible and communism so near / Toni Negri -- Possible worlds: an interview with Donna Haraway / Avery Gordon -- Frankenstein's dream: constitutional revision and social design, or how to build a body politic / Michael Ryan.

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Politics and culture.
Sex role--Political aspects.
Mind and body--Political aspects.
Emotions.
Postmodernism.
Sexos, Papel de los--Aspectos políticos.
Mente y cuerpo--Aspectos políticos.
Emociones.
Postmodernismo.
Politik
Kultur
Aufsatzsammlung
Drogenmissbrauch
Politische Philosophie

Culture

JA75.7 / .B63 1994

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