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Bodies in Flux : Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism.
This volume offers an insight into a selection of current issues of embodiment and other related aspects, such as identity, gender, disability, or sexuality, discussed on the basis of examples from contemporary culture and social life. Inspired by Donna Haraway's concept of the cyborg as a tran...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism; Part 1 Streaming the Body: Digital Media and the Embodiment; Chapter 1 The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities; References; Chapter 2 "Bodies We Obsess Upon": Corporality and Gender Performance in The Heart Machine (2014); References; Part 2 Extending the Body: Biotechnology, Fluidity, Monstrosity; Chapter 3 Body Going 'Gaga': Lady Gaga, Disability and the Gothic Body; References
- Chapter 4 "This Guy Is Such a Machine!": Gendering the Amputee Body in Fashion and Lifestyle MediaReferences; Chapter 5 Mexican Men Meet Cyborg Masculinity: Gendered Subjectivities in the Technology of Erection Era; References; Part 3 Body at the End of Times: Fantasising Gender; Chapter 6 POISE, Miss Lane! Super-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s; References; Chapter 7 From Tannenberg Battle to Warsaw Uprising: Polish Masculinity from Human to Posthuman in Modern Polish Literature; References; Chapter 8 Margaret Atwood's Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity