Posthuman bodies / edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston.

Date:
[1995]
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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."

Publication/Creation

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1995]

Physical description

x, 275 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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ISBN

  • 0253328942
  • 9780253328946
  • 0253209706
  • 9780253209702