Description:
Frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship
Review Quotes: "[Banning Queer Blood] traces the intersection of HIV/AIDS, blood supplies, the Red Cross, and queerness over the last quarter-century. . . . The methods used by the author include performativity/queer theory, archival research, rhetorical analysis, and interviews. . . . Throughout I found myself spellbound by the stories told, the ways of telling them, and the subtle methods of procuring and producing them."
--Toby Miller, author of Cultural Citizenship and The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject