Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security...

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Jenn Hobbs (University of Leicester, UK)

Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics

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Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security

Jenn Hobbs (University of Leicester, UK)

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English

Bristol University Press
24 June 2024

Central government policies; International relations

Series: Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics

This book builds upon an interdisciplinary cadre of feminist scholarship, taking 'bodily fluid' as the analytical lens to investigate how governance practices oppress certain bodies for the sake of others. It explores how global health issues not only affect minority groups, but how understandings of race, gender, sex and sexuality are (re)produced by healthcare policy.

Approaching three security settings from this starting point reveals new knowledge about these places and how security governance operates there. By looking at health and security governance through the plasma of paid Mexicana/o donors in the US, the vomit of black Africans at the airport, and the semen of soldiers with genitourinary injuries, the book shows how security practices attempt to govern bodily fluids to affect an unequal distribution of life and death between various bodies.

By: Jenn Hobbs (University of Leicester UK)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529237948
ISBN 10: 1529237947
Series: Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 24 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Theorizing Assemblages and Feminist Technoscience 3. Life-giving, Life-threatening: Plasma Donation at the U.S.–Mexico Border 4. Racializing Fluids: Vomit, Airports and the 2013–16 Ebola Pandemic 5. Securing Cisheterosexuality: Semen and Genitourinary Injuries 6. Finding, Following, Fluids 7. Concluding is the Wrong Verb

Jennifer Hobbs is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester, UK.

Reviews for Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security

“This book embodies the very best of what a queerfeminist curiosity has to offer global politics – unlikely sites and subjects of biopolitical (in)security and how they are inflected through and rub against race, gender and sexuality. By following bodily fluids – plasma, vomit and semen – the book takes the reader on a slippery ride through the messy assemblages of security practices to creatively meditate on what this means for the entangled distribution of life and death in the everyday. A must-read for students and scholars interested in subverting the discipline and creatively thinking otherwise.” Cristina Masters, University of Manchester