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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
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 transgressor of boundaries, the book
examines fluidity of post-human bodies - from cyber relations to
others and to self, enabled by the latest technologies, through
fragmented, prostheticised, monstrous or augmented body of popular
culture and lifestyles, to the dis/utopian fantasies offered by
literary texts - showing how difficult it still is in current
culture to let go of the stable boundaries towards the post-gender
world Haraway imagines. Contributors are Dawn Woolley, Anna
Pilinska, Barbara Braid, Jana Reynolds, Julio Ernesto Guerrero
Mondaca, Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodriguez, Katharina Vester,
Wojciech Smieja and Hanan Muzaffar.
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