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Author Zaag, Annette-Carina van der, author

Title Materialities of sex in a time of HIV : the promise of vaginal microbicides / Annette-Carina van der Zaag
Published London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics
Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics.
Contents A promise of empowerment -- The feminist project of agential realism -- Vaginal spaces of biopolitical conflict -- On the figure and the real -- A promise of efficacy -- Political genealogies, frictional collectivities -- A cyborg promise?
Summary Provides a materialist analysis of the field of vaginal microbicides highlighting the problems of materialising the concept of empowerment through biomedical process, while utilising the microbicide as an analytical ally in a provocative debate with contemporary feminist theory on materiality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject HIV infections -- Prevention.
Antiviral agents.
Feminism.
Anti-infective agents.
Bioethics.
HIV Infections -- prevention & control
Feminism
Anti-Infective Agents
Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic -- ethics
Bioethical Issues
Antiviral Agents
feminism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Antiviral agents.
HIV infections -- Prevention.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017033980
ISBN 9781783488438
1783488433