Annette-Carina van der Zaag is a lecturer in sexuality and social theory in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

What can vaginal microbicides tell us? This compelling book engages the political, empirical and theoretical stakes of HIV science and prevention in its lived material reality. Crafting an innovative feminist neomaterialist toolkit, van der Zaag proposes an exciting agenda for feminist theorisations of empirical materialising in the world. This ground-breaking book demonstrates the transformative potential of analysis to revise, rewrite and reimagine feminist problems, concepts and futures.

• 1. Introduction / 2. A Promise of Empowerment / 3. The Feminist Project of Agential Realism / 4. Vaginal Spaces of Biopolitical Conflict / 5. On the Figure and the Real / 6. A Promise of Efficacy / 7. Political Genealogies, Frictional Collectives / 8. A Cyborg Promise? / 9. Conclusion / Glossary / Bibliography / Index

Annette-Carina van der Zaag is a lecturer in sexuality and social theory in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

What can vaginal microbicides tell us? This compelling book engages the political, empirical and theoretical stakes of HIV science and prevention in its lived material reality. Crafting an innovative feminist neomaterialist toolkit, van der Zaag proposes an exciting agenda for feminist theorisations of empirical materialising in the world. This ground-breaking book demonstrates the transformative potential of analysis to revise, rewrite and reimagine feminist problems, concepts and futures.

• 1. Introduction / 2. A Promise of Empowerment / 3. The Feminist Project of Agential Realism / 4. Vaginal Spaces of Biopolitical Conflict / 5. On the Figure and the Real / 6. A Promise of Efficacy / 7. Political Genealogies, Frictional Collectives / 8. A Cyborg Promise? / 9. Conclusion / Glossary / Bibliography / Index

Annette-Carina van der Zaag is a lecturer in sexuality and social theory in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

What can vaginal microbicides tell us? This compelling book engages the political, empirical and theoretical stakes of HIV science and prevention in its lived material reality. Crafting an innovative feminist neomaterialist toolkit, van der Zaag proposes an exciting agenda for feminist theorisations of empirical materialising in the world. This ground-breaking book demonstrates the transformative potential of analysis to revise, rewrite and reimagine feminist problems, concepts and futures.

• 1. Introduction / 2. A Promise of Empowerment / 3. The Feminist Project of Agential Realism / 4. Vaginal Spaces of Biopolitical Conflict / 5. On the Figure and the Real / 6. A Promise of Efficacy / 7. Political Genealogies, Frictional Collectives / 8. A Cyborg Promise? / 9. Conclusion / Glossary / Bibliography / Index