Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms Medicine, Media, and Militarisms

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. Blood Cultures Traces The Cultural History Of Blood As It Enabled The Twentieth-century American Empire. Spilling Blood, Managing Blood, Banking Blood, And Even Sucking Blood Defined The Nation And Its Practices, From Alcatraz Island To Guantanamo Bay. Bringing Together Science Studies, Pop Culture, And Anti-racist Feminist And Queer Politics, The Book Examines How Blood Saturated The Twentieth-century Cultural Imaginary, Slipped Into Laws And Policies, Flowed Across Screens, And Seeped Into Our Most Intimate Relationships-- Machine Generated Contents Note: -- Introduction -- 1. Bleeding Identities: The Racial And Sexual Politics Of Blood Drive Activism -- 2. Cartographies Of Blood And Violence -- 3. Technologies Of Blood: The Biopolitics Of Asylum -- 4. Between Blood And The Bomb: Atomic Cities, Nuclear Kinship, And Queer Vampires -- Conclusion: Sanguinary Futures. Cathy Hannabach. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 125-138) And Index. "Blood Cultures traces the cultural history of blood as it enabled the twentieth-century American empire. Spilling blood, managing blood, banking blood, and even sucking blood defined the nation and its practices, from Alcatraz Island to Guantanamo Bay. Bringing together science studies, pop culture, and anti-racist feminist and queer politics, the book examines how blood saturated the twentieth-century cultural imaginary, slipped into laws and policies, flowed across screens, and seeped into our most intimate relationships"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction....Pages 1-10 Bleeding Identities: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Blood Drive Activism....Pages 11-36 Cartographies of Blood and Violence....Pages 37-64 Technologies of Blood: The Biopolitics of Asylum....Pages 65-91 Blood and the Bomb: Atomic Cities, Nuclear Kinship, and Queer Vampires....Pages 92-114 Conclusion: Sanguinary Futures....Pages 115-124 Back Matter....Pages 125-153