Posthuman bodies /

"It is a collection of essays that takes up, in a mostly affirmative way, various challenges to the coherence of the "human body" as a figure through which culture is processed and oriented." Partial contents : The end of the world of White Men ; Class and its close relations : i...

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Tác giả khác: Halberstam, Jack, 1961- (Biên tập viên), Livingston, Ira, 1956- (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1995.
Loạt:Unnatural acts.
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Mục lục:
  • Identity in Oshkosh / Allucquere Rosanne Stone
  • Two lessons from Burroughs / Steven Shaviro
  • The End of the world of white men / Kathy Acker
  • Class and its close relations: identities among women, servants, and machines / Alexandra Chasin
  • Soft fictions and intimate documents: can feminism be posthuman? / Paula Rabinowitz
  • Reproducing the posthuman body: ectogenetic fetus, surrogate mother, pregnant man / Susan M. Squier
  • The Seductive power of science in the making of deviant subjectivity / Jennifer Terry
  • Phantom and reel projections: lesbians and the (serial) killing-machine / Camilla Griggers
  • 'Death of the family.' or, keeping human beings human / Roddey Reid
  • Reading like an alien: posthuman identity in Ridley Scott's Alien and David Cronenberg's Rabid / Kelly Hurley
  • Terminating bodies: toward a cyborg history of abortion / Carol Mason
  • 'Once they were men, now they're landcrabs': monstrous becomings in evolutionist cinema / Eric White.