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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Bristol University Press
06 April 2026

Central government policies; International relations

Series: Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics

In recent years, security actors have become increasingly concerned with health issues. This book reveals how understandings of race, sexuality and gender are produced/reproduced through healthcare policy.

Analysing the plasma of paid Mexicana/o donors in the US, airport vomit in Ebola epidemics and the semen of soldiers with genitourinary injuries, this book shows how security practices focus upon governing bodily fluids.

Using a variety of critical scholarship - feminist technoscience, queer studies and critical race studies - this book uses fluids to reveal unequal distributions of life and death.

By: Jenn Hobbs (University of Leicester UK)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529237955
ISBN 10: 1529237955
Series: Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 06 April 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jenn Hobbs is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester.

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