Blood cultures
Subtitle: medicine, media, and militarisms
By: Cathy Hannabach
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampsire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781137581587
Subjects: MEDICAL / History; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Social aspects; History; Blood
Description: "Blood Cultures traces the cultural history of blood as it enabled the twentieth-century American empire. Spilling blood, managing blood, banking blood, and even sucking blood defined the nation and its practices, from Alcatraz Island to Guantanamo Bay. Bringing together science studies, pop culture, and anti-racist feminist and queer politics, the book examines how blood saturated the twentieth-century cultural imaginary, slipped into laws and policies, flowed across screens, and seeped into our most intimate relationships"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: 1. Bleeding Identities: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Blood Drive Activism; title: 2. Cartographies of Blood and Violence; title: 3. Technologies of Blood: The Biopolitics of Asylum; title: 4. Between Blood and the Bomb: Atomic Cities, Nuclear Kinship, and Queer Vampires; title: Conclusion: Sanguinary Futures.