Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls
Subtitle: Feminism, Popular Culture and the Posthuman Body
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781845114671
Subjects: Feminism; Popular culture; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / Gender Studies
Description: "Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls explores the idea of the 'posthuman' and the ways in which it is represented in popular culture. Toffoletti considers images of the posthuman body, from goth-rocker Marilyn Manson's digitally manipulated self-portraits to the famous TDK 'baby' adverts, and from the work of artist Patricia Piccinini to the curiously 'plastic' form of the ubiquitous Barbie doll, controversially rescued here from her negative image. The book draws on the work of thinkers including Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti to explore the nature of the human - and its ambiguous gender - in an age of biotechnologies and digital worlds."--