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Making monsters: Heterosexuality, crime and race in recent Western media coverage of HIV

dc.contributor.author Persson, Asha en_US
dc.contributor.author Newman, Christy en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T15:09:58Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T15:09:58Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.description.abstract In the early HIV epidemic, Western media coverage encouraged the idea that infection was linked to `other` identities located outside the `mainstream`; outside `proper` heterosexuality. Today, however, HIV has become repositioned as a global heterosexual epidemic. Analyses show that since the 1990s Western media have shifted away from blame and hysteria to an increasingly routinised reporting of HIV as a health story and social justice issue. But recent years have seen the emergence of a new media story in many Western countries; the criminal prosecution for HIV-related offences, and with it a reframing of old discourses of `innocence` and `guilt`, but now with heterosexuals in focus. We examine this story in recent domestic media coverage in Australia, a country where heterosexual HIV transmission is rare by global comparison. Echoing similar stories in other Western media, in Australian coverage the idea of criminal intent converges with the symbolic weight of black sexuality and African origins to produce a `monstrous` masculinity, which at the local level taps into contemporary racial tensions and, in so doing, conjures an imagined Anglo-heterosexuality at once vulnerable to and safe from HIV in a globalised epidemic and world. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0141-9889 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/44182
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title Making monsters: Heterosexuality, crime and race in recent Western media coverage of HIV en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01082.x en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 4 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Sociology of Health and Illness en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 632-646 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 30 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Persson, Asha, National Centre in HIV Social Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Newman, Christy, National Centre in HIV Social Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Centre for Social Research in Health *
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