Catherine Waldby currently teaches in the Communications and Cultural Studies programme and the Women’s Studies programme at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.
AIDS and the Body Politic traces the fascinating yet disturbing shape of how culturally desirable is the clean, self-identical and sharply bounded (male) body, protected against infection, and how culturally horrifying are open, uncontrolled (female and gay male) bodies, prone to collecting and proliferating infection. This work is an important and fresh analysis of how cultural material informs biomedical and epidemiological models and measures.. <br>- Emily Martin <br>