Toxic sexual politics : toxicology, environmental poisons, and queer feminist futures /

Toxic Sexual Politics uses historical and contemporary evidence to show how the U.S. science of toxicology is a tool designed by and for the chemical industry, suggesting that public health will never win the industry's game. What if, instead, the science of toxicants explicitly confronted chem...

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Main Author: Packer, Melina (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2025].
Series:Health, society, and inequality series.
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Summary:Toxic Sexual Politics uses historical and contemporary evidence to show how the U.S. science of toxicology is a tool designed by and for the chemical industry, suggesting that public health will never win the industry's game. What if, instead, the science of toxicants explicitly confronted chemical corporate power, building from queer feminist, anti-ableist and anti-racist movements for environmental and reproductive justice?
Physical Description:xviii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1479828610
1479828629
9781479828616
9781479828623