Jeffrey A Bennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey A Bennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennett |
| SIGNATURE | BENNETT J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Underwriting Discrimination
Insurance companies have long utilized the noxiously bureaucratic language of “pre-existing conditions” clauses to protect their profits by disenfranchising people with medical problems. Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, corporate executives defended such practices by utilizing rhetorics that naturalized capitalist constructions of risk. However, a person need not live with an actual health condition to fall victim to malicious und…
Quantifying air quality co-benefits to industrial decarbonization
Introduction Many decarbonization technologies have the added co-benefit of reducing short-lived climate pollutants, such as particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides (NO x ), and sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), creating a unique opportunity for identifying strategies that promote both climate change solutions and opportunities for air quality improvement. However, stakeholders and decision-makers may struggle to quantify how these co-benefits will impact…
Duty and pleasure in Brouwer’s HIV rhetoric
In this short essay, we read Dan Brouwer's scholarship on HIV rhetoric through the philosophical lens of hedonics, a branch of ethics that preoccupies itself with the relationship between duty and pleasure. In doing so, we draw attention to the corporeal, affective, and symbolic dimensions of pleasure inherent in his writings. We gesture toward three ethics cultivated from Brouwer's work: an ethics of legibility, of multiplicity, and of care
Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the Covid-19 era
This essay explores how public reception of, and individual resistance to, public health mandates have reinforced agentic notions of bodily management in the COVID-19 era. Our collective approach to the pandemic continues to secure prevalent understandings of human agency over disease and illness by reifying the concept of personal choice. Notions of risk and shame shape these performances but do little to dislodge cultural frames that reify noti…
Containing Sotomayor
This essay explores how rhetorics of diabetes management informed Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial persona during her ascent to the Supreme Court. Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings were clouded famously by institutional racism and sexism. She was accused repeatedly by congressional Republicans of being intemperate, emotional, and illogical in a judicial sphere that prizes circumspection, deliberateness, and collegiality. As part of a larger strategy to…
Troubled Interventions
Passing, Protesting, and the Arts of Resistance
This essay critically engages challenges made against the federally mandated deferral policies which prohibit "men who have sex with other men" from donating blood. I argue that "passing" and "protest" are dialogically dependent on one another as two separate but related tactics of resistance. Drawing on interview materials from men who have both "passed" and "protested," the essay explores the implications of this dialogical tension for understa…
Love me gender
Advocates of "reparative therapy" employ a modified version of Judith Butler's "normative heterosexuality" discourse to "cure" gays and lesbians. Coupling Butler with a "coming out of homosexuality" personal narrative, reorientation texts such as Love Won Out construct a ubiquitous foundation for sexual identity and collective experience. At the text's conclusion, a tension is produced between a constitutive conception of identity and a more trad…
Love me gender
Advocates of "reparative therapy" employ a modified version of Judith Butler's "normative heterosexuality" discourse to "cure" gays and lesbians. Coupling Butler with a "coming out of homosexuality" personal narrative, reorientation texts such as Love Won Out construct a ubiquitous foundation for sexual identity and collective experience. At the text's conclusion, a tension is produced between a constitutive conception of identity and a more trad…
Passing, Protesting, and the Arts of Resistance
This essay critically engages challenges made against the federally mandated deferral policies which prohibit "men who have sex with other men" from donating blood. I argue that "passing" and "protest" are dialogically dependent on one another as two separate but related tactics of resistance. Drawing on interview materials from men who have both "passed" and "protested," the essay explores the implications of this dialogical tension for understa…
Love me gender
Advocates of "reparative therapy" employ a modified version of Judith Butler's "normative heterosexuality" discourse to "cure" gays and lesbians. Coupling Butler with a "coming out of homosexuality" personal narrative, reorientation texts such as Love Won Out construct a ubiquitous foundation for sexual identity and collective experience. At the text's conclusion, a tension is produced between a constitutive conception of identity and a more trad…
Passing, Protesting, and the Arts of Resistance
This essay critically engages challenges made against the federally mandated deferral policies which prohibit "men who have sex with other men" from donating blood. I argue that "passing" and "protest" are dialogically dependent on one another as two separate but related tactics of resistance. Drawing on interview materials from men who have both "passed" and "protested," the essay explores the implications of this dialogical tension for understa…
Troubled Interventions
Containing Sotomayor
This essay explores how rhetorics of diabetes management informed Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial persona during her ascent to the Supreme Court. Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings were clouded famously by institutional racism and sexism. She was accused repeatedly by congressional Republicans of being intemperate, emotional, and illogical in a judicial sphere that prizes circumspection, deliberateness, and collegiality. As part of a larger strategy to…
Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the Covid-19 era
This essay explores how public reception of, and individual resistance to, public health mandates have reinforced agentic notions of bodily management in the COVID-19 era. Our collective approach to the pandemic continues to secure prevalent understandings of human agency over disease and illness by reifying the concept of personal choice. Notions of risk and shame shape these performances but do little to dislodge cultural frames that reify noti…
Duty and pleasure in Brouwer’s HIV rhetoric
In this short essay, we read Dan Brouwer's scholarship on HIV rhetoric through the philosophical lens of hedonics, a branch of ethics that preoccupies itself with the relationship between duty and pleasure. In doing so, we draw attention to the corporeal, affective, and symbolic dimensions of pleasure inherent in his writings. We gesture toward three ethics cultivated from Brouwer's work: an ethics of legibility, of multiplicity, and of care
Quantifying air quality co-benefits to industrial decarbonization
Introduction Many decarbonization technologies have the added co-benefit of reducing short-lived climate pollutants, such as particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides (NO x ), and sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), creating a unique opportunity for identifying strategies that promote both climate change solutions and opportunities for air quality improvement. However, stakeholders and decision-makers may struggle to quantify how these co-benefits will impact…
Underwriting Discrimination
Insurance companies have long utilized the noxiously bureaucratic language of “pre-existing conditions” clauses to protect their profits by disenfranchising people with medical problems. Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, corporate executives defended such practices by utilizing rhetorics that naturalized capitalist constructions of risk. However, a person need not live with an actual health condition to fall victim to malicious und…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Rhetoric (3 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Disease (2 works)