Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms

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.

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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.

Inhalt
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