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HIV-AIDS: Homophobia and Biomedical Discourse
Authors: Tzanaki, Demetra
Kouroutzas, Christos
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In the chapter titled “'HIV-AIDS: Homophobia and Biomedical Discourse”, we discuss how metaphors surrounding HIV-AIDS entangle sexist, racist, classist, misogynist, ageist, and ableist discourses on gender and sexuality. We also examine how racist discourses were transformed into ableism in the 1980s. AIDS became associated with homosexuals, heroin addicts, and even Haitians, suggesting that immoral, non-white, and, in short, psychically effeminate individuals were blamed for the disease. J. Philippe Rushton, a professor at Western Ontario University, argued for the biological superiority of whites and people of Asian descent over blacks in terms of intelligence. Robert Gordon, a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, linked the high crime rates among African Americans to lower IQ levels.
Linguistic Editors: Mourtou-Paradeisopoulou, Maria
Technical Editors: Kentrotis, Christos
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 08-11-2024
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License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/14158
Bibliographic Reference: Tzanaki, D., & Kouroutzas, C. (2024). HIV-AIDS: Homophobia and Biomedical Discourse [Chapter]. In Tzanaki, D., & Kouroutzas, C. 2024. Gender, Science and Society: Queer readings of human subjugation [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/14158
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Gender, Science and Society: Queer readings of human subjugation
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions