Posthuman Bodies

Name: Posthuman Bodies
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ISBN: 9780253209702

ISBN-10: 0253209706

ISBN-13: 9780253209702

Edition: 1995

Authors: Judith M. Halberstam, Ira Livingston, Judith Halberstam

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/22/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

JUDITH M. HALBERSTAM is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California-San Diego. IRA LIVINGSTON is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction: Posthuman Bodies




Identity in Oshkosh




Two Lessons from Burroughs




The End of the World of White Men




Class and Its Close Relations: Identities among Women




Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism b Posthuman?




Reproducing the Posthuman Body: Ectogenic 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, or, Keeping Human Beings Human




Reading Like an Alien: Posthuman Identity in Ridley Scott's Alien and David Cronenberg's Rabid




Terminating Bodies: Toward a Cyborg History of Abortion




"Once They Were Men, Now They're Landcrabs": Monstrous Becomings in Evolutionist Cinema



Contributors


Index