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Posthuman bodies / edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Unnatural actsPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995.Description: 1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585026920
  • 9780585026923
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Posthuman bodies.DDC classification:
  • 391/.6 20
LOC classification:
  • GT495 .P67 1995eb
Other classification:
  • 42.85
  • EC 5410
  • MS 3000
  • 17.90
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: "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."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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"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."

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