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"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…
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3 editions- Other · English · 1995Indiana University Press · 9780585026923
- Other · English · 1995Indiana University Press · 275 pages · 9780253328946
- Other · English · 1995Indiana University Press · 276 pages · 9780253115584
Sex symbolismBody imageSex in popular culturePostmodernismBody, Human (Philosophy)Social aspectsHumanismSymbolic aspects