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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Bibliographic Details
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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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: A different kind of family history
  • Introduction: Finding the man in the science
  • The devil trick
  • Magical authority
  • Toxicant masculinity
  • Fuzzy family feelings
  • Fishy exceptionalism
  • Outro: Purity and drag.