This talk examines a new way of apprehending cancer by foregrounding gender and sexual politics found in HPV vaccination, anal cancer research, and depictions of what some regard as a rising throat cancer epidemic. The talk is based on preliminary findings from ethnographic research with scientists, health practitioners, and publics around these emergent epistemologies and practices of cancer prevention.

Laura Mamo received her PhD in sociology from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2002. She is currently Health Equity Associate Professor of Health Education at San Francisco State University. Her teaching and research interests are in feminist science studies with a focus on women’s health, LGBT health, and sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. She is the author of "Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience" (Duke University Press, 2007) and Co-editor of "Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S." (Duke University Press, 2010).

Presented by IRWG's Feminist Science Studies program and cosponsored by the Reproductive Justice program.