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

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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.

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Book Title: Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms
Authors: Cathy Hannabach
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57782-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58158-7Published: 20 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57782-5Published: 12 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 153
Topics: American Culture, Cultural Policy and Politics, Cultural History, History of Medicine

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Bleeding Identities: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Blood Drive Activism

Cartographies of Blood and Violence

Technologies of Blood: The Biopolitics of Asylum

Blood and the Bomb: Atomic Cities, Nuclear Kinship, and Queer Vampires

Conclusion: Sanguinary Futures

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