AMST 198 2010 Notes
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AMST 198: Triechler-Beyond Cosmo 15/02/2010 20:51:00 ← 1988 Gould article in Cosmo: • cannot contract AIDS/HIV through normal unprotected s ex • healthy vagina protection enough, if not, why not more heteros? • occurs in Africa b/c of homosexuality and rough hetero sex o “rape by our standards” not only gendered but racialized ← Response to article: • ACT UP—protest and boycott of Cosmo, documentary and book ← Problems of Identity: • philosophical questions of difference, which features of the worl account for its sameness and which for its diversity? o who is infected? how is it transmitted? shape the way we identify and classify women who have the disease o history as a gay disease distorted gender, thus women felt immune • personal identity –features that link each of us to other groups of people but also distinguish us o medical field limited in its scope of features • psychological sense—process where we identify with some aspect or attribute of another ← women as vessels or carriers of the infection—it was believed that they could not infect men, only an infected man’s semen that remained in a woman’s vagina would infect another man or the projectile penis theory • implications: AIDs is uniquely homosexual, violates natural difference • body’s vulnerability to disease is gendered: vagina amor vs. delicate penis o “she menstruates,” “use of IUDs and birth control pills,” “she ages” !!!!!!! o equating vagina to rectum • limits and problems w/ stats
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