Annette-Carina van der Zaag

Materialities of Sex in a Time of HIV

The Promise of Vaginal Microbicides

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a materialist analysis of the field of vaginal microbicides highlighting the problems of materialising the concept of empowerment through biomedical process, while utilising the microbicide as an analytical ally in a provocative debate with contemporary feminist theory on materiality.

Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781783488421
• ISBN-10: 1783488425
• Artikelnr.: 54427671

Autorenporträt

Annette-Carina van der Zaag is a lecturer in sexuality and social theory in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. A Promise of Empowerment
3. The Feminist Project of Agential Realism
4. Vaginal Spaces of Biopolitical Conflict
5. On the Figure and the Real
6. A Promise of Efficacy
7. Political Genealogies, Frictional Collectives
8. A Cyborg Promise?
9. Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index