1. Introduction: troubling the person -- 2. Persona Fieta: the corporation as moral person -- 3. 'Not a sexy victory': gendering the person -- 4. Invented humans: kinship and property in persons -- 5. Machine intelligence: computers as posthuman persons -- 6. Celebrity personae: authenticating the person -- 7. Conclusion: impersonations
Summary
Sheryl N. Hamilton uses five different kinds of persons - corporations, women, clones, computers, and celebrities - to discuss the instability of the concept of personhood and to examine some of the ways in which broader social anxieties are expressed in these case studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-282) and index
