Body politics : disease, desire, and the family

304 Pages·1994·10.029 MB·English

by  Ryan, Michael

B
o d y
politics
DISEASE, DESIRE,
A N D TH E FAM ILY
EDITED BY
M ICHAEL RYAN
&
AVERY CORDON
B O D Y P O L I T I C S

POLITICS & CULTURE
Avery Gordon and Michael Ryan, editors
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anthropology to political science, from cultural studies to sociology. The serial is
concerned with the political significance of cultural forms and practices as well as
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FORTHCOMING
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Politics and Culture in Japan
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Mandate for Education
Black Diaspora: Africa and African-American Culture
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POLITICS A N P CULTURE
BODY
POLITICS
Disease, Desire,
and the Family
edited by
MICHAEL RYAN &
AVERY CORDON
WESTVIEW PRESS
Boulder San Francisco Oxford
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Politics and Culture 1
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Copyright © 1994 by Westview Press, Inc., except Chapter 1 (© Henry Abelove) and Chapter 20
(© Michael Ryan)
Published in 1994 in the United States of America by Westview Press, Inc., 5500 Central Avenue,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Body politics : disease, desire, and the family / edited by Michael
Ryan and Avery Gordon.
p. cm. — (Politics and culture ; 1)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8133-1840-8 — ISBN 0-8133-1841-6 (pbk.)
1. Politics and culture. 2. Sex role—Political aspects. 3. Mind
and body—Political aspects. 4. Emotions. 5. Postmodernism.
I. Ryan, Michael, 1951- II. Gordon, Avery. III. Series.
JA75.7.B63 1994
306.2—dc20 93-7934
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Printed and bound in the United States of America
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To the memory of
Denise Carty-Bennia
Mary Jo Frug
Franticek Galan
Craig Owens

Contents
Introduction Michael Ryan xi
PART ONE
DISEASE, WAR, AND THE FAMILY
1 The Politics of the “Gay Plague”: AIDS as a U.S. Ideology
Henry Abelove 3
2 Fatal Abstraction: The Death and Sinister Afterlife
of the American Family Nancy Armstrong 18
2 Not in Our Name: Women, War, AIDS
Ann Cvetkovich & Avery Gordon 32
4 The Meaning of Property: Real Estate, Class Position,
and the Ideology of Home Ownership
Pierre Bourdieu & Monique de Saint Martin 45
5 Homelessness and Poststructuralist Theory
Dennis Crow 72
6 Orphans’ Dreams: Panic Wars and the Postmodern
Jackie Orr & Stephen Pfohl 76
PART TWO
DRUGS HYSTERIA PAIN
7 A Short HIStory of the Parasite Cafe Stephen Pfohl 97
8 James Bond and Immanuel Kant’s War on Drugs:
A Nosography and Nosegrammatics of Male Hysteria
Mark Driscoll 104
9 AlphaBet City: The Politics of Pharmacology
Maurizio Via no 115
IO The Broken Self: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
and Native American Selfhood Margit Stange 126
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