Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance (Rhetoric, Culture & Social Critique)

by JohnLouisLucaites (Series Editor), JeffreyA.Bennett (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $40.50

  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.