HIV/AIDS and the epidemiological constructions and falsifications of gender

Title: HIV/AIDS and the epidemiological constructions and falsifications of gender
Creator: Smith, Royce W.
Relation: Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 6, Issue 1, p. 66-76
Relation: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs
Publisher: University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2001
Description: As Judith Butler notes regarding gender performativity, “the body presents itself as a signifying lack”; nevertheless, juxtapositions of HIV/AIDS and gender (a) have re-created genderoriented acceptabilities and taboos, (b) have attempted to demarcate “lacks” and “excesses” that threaten or reify heteronormative matrices, and (c) have re-fashioned gender identity solely on the basis of superficial “readings” of the performing body—the “Other.” My paper explores HIV/AIDS as a driving force behind normative re-deployments of gender-based taboos. Examining arguments by Butler, Sedgwick, and Sontag, I also show how the fluid metaphoricity of HIV/AIDS has imperilled traditional, binary configurations of gender.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; gender; epidemiological constructions
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1047129
Identifier: uon:14740
Identifier: ISSN:1325-1848
Language: eng
Full Text
Reviewed

		Thumbnail	File	Description	Size	Format
View Details Download			ATTACHMENT01	Publisher version (open access)	543 KB	Adobe Acrobat PDF	View Details Download