Smearing the Queer
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-56023-926-0 (ISBN)
research and development on rectal microbicides
why many gay men should be receiving periodic anal Pap smears to screen for anorectal cancer
an in-depth critique of the problematic diagnosis of “Gay Bowel Syndrome”
gay men’s use of the Reality Female Condom for anal sex
Viagara’s impact on gay men’s sexual cultures, erectile dysfunction, and recreational drug use
a broad-based advocacy agenda for improving relations between gay men and the health sciences
the politics surrounding gay men’s restricted access to new and prospective safer sex technologies Smearing the Queer challenges heterosexist bias within the health care delivery and health sciences research and calls for the development of public policy initiatives that address gay men’s wellness in more sophisticated and complex ways. This is the only publication that provides in-depth social, cultural, and political analysis of the topics of Gay Bowel Syndrome, gay men’s use of the female condom, rectal microbicides, and anal Pap smears while examining the social forces that direct scientific research under the guise of objectivity.
Scarce, Michael
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fucking with Technology
Section I: Smear as Defamation
Dr. Kazal’s Ace in the Hole
Chapter 1. Harbinger of Plague: A Bad Case of Gay Bowel Syndrome
Gaying the Bowel
Siting the Bowel
Speaking in Syndromes
Dual Diagnoses
Prevention
In the Bowels of the Other
AIDS and Gay Bowel Syndrome: Causation, Correlation, and Conflation
The Homosexual Menace: Gay Bowel Syndrome As Grounds for Antigay Discrimination
Conclusions
Section II: Smearing to Spread a Wet Substance
The Plumber’s Applause
Chapter 2. Gay Men and the Female Condom: Is Rectal Reality Getting A Bum Wrap?
Historical Reality
Sexual Governance
Feminizing Safer Sex Technology
Instructing the Anus
Queering Reality
The San Francisco Controversy
The Appropriateness of Appropriation
Threadbare Back
Chapter 3. Condomless Condoms: The Politics and Prospects of Rectal Microbicides
The Need for Rectal Harm Reduction
Rectal Microbicide Research and Development
Gendered and Anatomical Comparisions
Types of Microbicides
Prospective Politics
Left to Our Own Devices
Section III: The Smear for Microscopic Examination
A Recipe for Rectal Tarts (or, Just Add Feces and Stir)
Chapter 4. Queering the Smear: A Detective Named Pap
Carcinogenic Homosexuality
Smearing the Anus
Behind the Screen
Comparative Sex
Negotiating the Smear
Adviser
Chapter 5. Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Viagra Use Among Gay Men
Recreational Erections
Sex as a Class Act
Criminal Aids and Criminal AIDS
Conversion Therapy: Bottoms Become Tops
How Hard is Hard Enough
Real Men Don’t Need Viagra
Section IV: Clearing The Smear
Immaculate Infection
Chapter 6. Heterocopulative Syndrome: Clinico-Pathologic Correlation in 260 Classes
Problem and Literature Review
Method
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Smear-Resistant Strategies
Notes
Index
Reference Notes Included
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.7.1999 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 212 mm |
Gewicht | 400 g |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-56023-926-3 / 1560239263 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-56023-926-0 / 9781560239260 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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