Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics - (Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics) by Jenn Hobbs (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"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

About the Author

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