Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms

by Cathy Hannabach

Overview

Offering a cultural history of blood as it was mobilized across twentieth-century U.S. medicine, militarisms, and popular culture, Hannabach examines the ways that blood has saturated the cultural imaginary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137581587
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/20/2015
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	153
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Cathy Hannabach is a US independent scholar and editor whose research focuses on transnational feminist cultural studies, queer disability studies, and science and technology studies. Her work has appeared in Women and Performance, Cultural Politics, Social Text, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is the founder of Philly Queer Media, a media arts organization that fosters new, intersectional work in the performing, media, visual, and media arts.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Bleeding Identities: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Blood Drive Activism 2. Cartographies of Blood and Violence 3. Technologies of Blood: The Biopolitics of Asylum 4. Between Blood and the Bomb: Atomic Cities, Nuclear Kinship, and Queer Vampires Conclusion: Sanguinary Futures

Editorial Reviews

"How does blood circulate? Not simply in bodies, but through politics and over maps and across media? These are the questions that are central to Cathy Hannabach's stunning multi-disciplinary, transnational analysis of the role of blood in giving life to American modernity. This book creates a narrative of the twentieth century, and a means of understanding the nation and its practices, from the American Red Cross to Guantanamo Bay." - Eric Smoodin, author of Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960

"Cathy Hannabach assembles an impressive interdisciplinary archive to explore important questions in twentieth century US political and cultural histories. Analyzing blood as both metaphor and material practice, Hannabach's inventive, lively, and important book examines the relationship between race, gender/sexuality, and national belonging in popular culture, medicine, and in the military. Essential reading for transnational American Studies, gender and sexuality, and science and technology studies." - Julie Sze, author of Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis

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