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Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit) by Bennett, Jeffrey Allen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In __Banning Queer Blood__, Jeffrey Bennett frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship. However, with the advent of AIDS came the notion of blood donation as a potentially dangerous process. Bennett 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. The FDA's ban on blood donation by gay men remains in effect and serves to propagate the social misconceptions about gay men that circulate within both the straight and gay communities today. Bennett explores the role of scientific research cited by these banned-blood policies and its disquieting relationship to government agencies, including the FDA. Bennett draws parallels between the FDA's position on homosexuality and the historical precedents of discrimination by government agencies against racial minorities. The author concludes by describing the resistance posed by queer donors, who either lie in order to donate blood or protest discrimination at donation sites, and by calling for these prejudiced policies to be abolished.

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Author

Bennett, Jeffrey Allen

Publisher

University of Alabama Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817316648

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Social Science