Posthuman bodies
By: edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston.
Contributors: Halberstam, Judith, 1961-; Livingston, Ira, 1956-
Series: Unnatural acts
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Body, Human -- Social aspects; Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects; Body, Human (Philosophy); Body image; Sex symbolism; Sex in popular culture; Humanism -- 20th century; Postmodernism
Description: "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 : identities among women, servants, and machines ; Soft fictions and intimate documents : can feminism be posthuman? ; Reproducing the posthuman body : ectogenetic fetus, surrogate mother, pregnant man ; The seductive power of science in the making of deviant subjectivity ; Phantom and reel projections lesbians and the (serial) killing-machine ; "Death of the family."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.