Posthuman bodies

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."

subjects: Sex symbolism,  Body image,  Sex in popular culture,  Postmodernism,  Body, Human (Philosophy),  Social aspects,  Humanism,  Symbolic aspects,  Human Body,  Human body (Philosophy),  History,  Humanism, 20th century,  Human body, social aspects,  Corps humain,  Aspect social,  Aspect symbolique,  Corps humain (Philosophie),  Image du corps,  Symbolisme sexuel,  Sexualité dans la culture populaire,  Humanisme,  Histoire,  Postmodernisme,  HEALTH & FITNESS,  Beauty & Grooming,  Menselijk lichaam,  Seksualiteit,  Populaire cultuur,  Symbolism,  Popular Culture

Times: 20th century