Materialities of Sex in a Time of HIV : The Promise of Vaginal Microbicides.

Materialities of Sex in a Time of HIV -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- New Materialisms, Political Temporalities -- A Story of Vulnerability and Promise -- Methodological Implications -- Structure of the Book -- 2 A Promise of Empowerment -- Empowerment: A Vehicle of Inclusion -- From Female-Controlled Prophylaxis to Microbicide -- A Tool Women Can Control -- Conclusion -- 3 The Feminist Project of Agential Realism -- Posthuman Performativity -- Agential Realism -- A Politics of Transformation -- Conclusion -- 4 Vaginal Spaces of Biopolitical Conflict -- A Symposium of Ethical and Practical Dilemmas -- The Story of Nonoxynol-9 -- Conclusion -- 5 On the Figure and the Real -- Natureculture as Feminist Politics -- Figures of Situated Knowledge -- Posthuman Standpoints of Material-Semiotic Actors -- Figures of Survival -- Conclusion -- 6 A Promise of Efficacy -- The Importance of Seroconversion: SAVVY -- Negotiating Public Outrage: Cellulose Sulfate -- Towards a Relational Understanding of the RCT: Carraguard -- Conclusion -- 7 Political Genealogies, Frictional Collectivities -- Political Matters -- Posthumanism/Postanthropocentrism -- Conclusion -- 8 A Cyborg Promise? -- The Moment of PRO 2000 -- A Configuration of Its Potential User -- Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion -- A Posthuman Promise -- A Political Ethos of Conviviality -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Provides a materialist analysis of the field of vaginal microbicides highlighting the problems of materialising the concept of empowerment through biomedical process, while utilising the microbicide as an analytical ally in a provocative debate with contemporary feminist theory on materiality.

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