1. Governing Sexual Health: Bridging Biocitizenship and Sexual Citizenship

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Categorical Understandings
5. 1. Governing Sexual Health: Bridging Biocitizenship and Sexual Citizenship 21
6. 2. Carceral Biocitizenship: The Rhetorics of Sovereignty in Incarceration 51
7. 3. Epigenetics and the Biocitizen: Body Temporality and Political Agency in the Postgenomic Age 70
8. Part II. Modes of Governance
9. 4. Chronic Citizenship: Community, Choice, and Queer Controversy 95
10. 5. The Necropolitical Functions of Biocitizenship: The Sixth International AIDS Conference and the U.S. Ban on HIV- Positive Immigrants 117
11. 6. Exploiting Vulnerable Citizens: Drug Testing and the Mentally Ill 133
12. Part III. Activism and Resistance
13. 7. Feeding Hunger- Striking Prisoners: Biopolitics and Impossible Citizenship 155
14. 8. Biocitizenship on the Ground: Health Activism and the Medical Governance Revolution 178
15. 9. The Rise of Health Activism: The Importance of Social Class to Biosociality 204
16. 10. Patient Activists: Experience with Public Engagement 222
17. Part IV. Beyond the Biocitizen
18. 11. Nonhuman Biocitizens: Lab Animals, Cruel Optimism, and the Politics of Death 233
19. 12. The Citizens of Incubators: Vessels of Care and Control 255
20. 13. The Supra- Cyborg: The Rise of Global Governing Corporatocracies 274
21. Acknowledgments 307
22. About the Contributors 309
23. Index 317