Cover of Posthuman Bodies

Book 1995

Posthuman Bodies

2 readers

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Language
English
Published
1995
  • Sex symbolism
  • Body image
  • Sex in popular culture
  • Postmodernism
  • Body, Human (Philosophy)
  • Social aspects
  • Humanism
  • Symbolic aspects

"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."