| Description |
x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Unnatural acts |
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Unnatural acts.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Posthuman Bodies / Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston -- 1. Identity in Oshkosh / Allucquere Rosanne Stone -- 2. Two Lessons from Burroughs / Steven Shaviro -- 3. The End of the World of White Men / Kathy Acker -- 4. Class and Its Close Relations: Identities among Women, Servants, and Machines / Alexandra Chasin -- 5. Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism Be Posthuman? / Paula Rabinowitz -- 6. Reproducing the Posthuman Body: Ectogenetic Fetus, Surrogate Mother, Pregnant Man / Susan M. Squier -- 7. The Seductive Power of Science in the Making of Deviant Subjectivity / Jennifer Terry -- 8. Phantom and Reel Projections: Lesbians and the (Serial) Killing-Machine / Camilla Griggers -- 9. "Death of the Family," or, Keeping Human Beings Human / Roddey Reid -- 10. Reading Like an Alien: Posthuman Identity in Ridley Scott's Alien and David Cronenberg's Rabid / Kelly Hurley -- 11. Terminating Bodies: Toward a Cyborg History of Abortion / Carol Mason |
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12. "Once They Were Men, Now They're Landcrabs": Monstrous Becomings in Evolutionist Cinema / Eric White |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography and index |
| Subject |
Body image.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Humanism -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex in popular culture.
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Postmodernism.
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Sex symbolism.
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| Author |
Halberstam, Jack, 1961-
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Livingston, Ira, 1956-
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| LC no. |
94045934 |
| ISBN |
0253209706 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0253328942 |
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