Works by Thomas C. Shevory |
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John Marshall's Achievement: Law, Politics, and Constitutional Interpretations (1989)
John Marshall's Law: Interpretation, Ideology, and Interest (1994)
Body/Politics: Studies in Reproduction, Production, and (Re)Construction (2000)
Notorious H.I.V: The Media Spectacle of Nushawn Williams (2004)
In Notorious H.I.V. Thomas Shevory sorts through the ensuing media panic and legal imbroglio to tell the story behind the Nushawn Williams case. Through media reports, legal documents, and interviews with many of the participants—including Williams, who eventually pled guilty to reckless endangerment and statutory rape charges and is currently serving time in a maximum security prison in New York—Shevory exposes the significant exaggerations, misunderstandings, and distortions that riddled the Williams case from the start. He contends that Williams’s portrayal as an "AIDS monster" served political purposes; specifically, representations of Williams helped to foster the passage of HIV-transmission statutes, resulting in criminalizing a public health problem in a virtually unprecedented fashion.