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AMST 198: Triechler-Beyond Cosmo 15/02/2010 20:51:00 1988 Gould article in Cosmo: cannot contract AIDS/HIV through normal unprotected s ex healthy vagina protection enough, if not, why not more heteros? occurs in Africa b/c of homosexuality and rough hetero sex o  “rape by our standards”  not only gendered but racialized Response to article: ACT UP—protest and boycott of Cosmo, documentary and book Problems of Identity: philosophical questions of difference, which features of the worl account for its sameness and which for its diversity? o who is infected? how is it transmitted? shape the way we identify and classify women who have the disease o history as a gay disease distorted gender, thus women felt immune personal identity –features that link each of us to other groups of people but also distinguish us o medical field limited in its scope of features psychological sense—process where we identify with some aspect or attribute of another women as vessels or carriers of the infection—it was believed that they could not infect men, only an infected man’s semen that remained in a woman’s vagina would infect another man or the projectile penis theory implications: AIDs is uniquely homosexual, violates natural difference body’s vulnerability to disease is gendered: vagina amor vs. delicate penis o  “she menstruates,” “use of IUDs and birth control pills,” “she ages” !!!!!!! o equating vagina to rectum limits and problems w/ stats

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