Body politics : [electronic resource] disease, desire, and the family / edited by Michael Ryan & Avery Gordon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Politics of the 'gay plague': AIDS as a U.S. ideology / Henry Abelove -- Fatal abstraction: the death and sinister afterlife of the American family / Nancy Armstrong -- Not in our name: women, war, AIDS / Ann Cvetkovich & Avery Gordon -- The Meaning of property: real estate, class position, and the ideology of home ownership / Pierre Bourdieu & Monique de Saint Martin -- Homelessness and poststructuralist theory / Dennis Crow -- Orphans' dreams: panic wars and the postmodern / Jackie Orr & Stephen Pfohl -- A Short History of the Parasite Cafe / Stephen Pfohl -- James Bond and Immanuel Kant's war on drugs: a nosography and nosegrammatics of male hysteria / Mark Driscoll -- AlphaBet city: the politics of pharmacology / Maurizio Viano -- The Broken self: fetal alcohol syndrome and Native American selfhood / Margit Stange -- George Bush, or homosocial politics / Thomas Dumm -- Postmortem on the presidential body, or where the rest of him went / Brian Massumi & Kenneth Dean -- Subjected bodies, science, and the state: Francis Bacon, torturer / Page DuBois -- Body memories: aide-memoires and collective amnesia in the wake of the Argentine terror / Julie Taylor -- The Official story: response to Julie Taylor / George E. Marcus -- The Electronic body at the end of the state: ethnicity, national identity, and the Japanese emperor system / Tetsuo Kogawa -- Toni Negri's practical philosophy / Michael Hardt -- The Physiology of counter-power: when socialism is impossible and communism so near / Toni Negri -- Possible worlds: an interview with Donna Haraway / Avery Gordon -- Frankenstein's dream: constitutional revision and social design, or how to build a body politic / Michael Ryan.