CIAO DATE: 9/07
Culture and Conflict: Volume 54 (Summer 2004)
Starting with the Clinton Administration, AIDS has progressively been treated both as a public health matter and as a « new » security issue that the United States now has to face. This discursive transformation contains several political implications that need to be addressed. Adopting postmodern feminism lenses, this article seeks to analyze how the American discursive representations of the African AIDS pandemic aim to protect a certain conception of the state’s masculine identity and structures of power. Particular attention is paid to the links established between the political and the physical body in AIDS-related discourses and to the gendered implications of the « United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act » of 2003 adopted under the George W. Bush Administration.