Posthuman Bodies

"... will draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of 'literature and science' researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanist toolbox." -- Richard DoyleAutomatic teller machines, castrati, lesbians, The Terminator: all participate in the profound technological, representation, sexual, and theoretical changes in which bodies are implicated. Posthuman Bodies addresses new interfaces between humans and technology that are radically altering the experience of our own and others' bodies.

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	p. 1
Identity in Oshkosh	p. 23
Two Lessons from Burroughs	p. 38
The End of the World of White Men	p. 57
Class and Its Close Relations: Identities among Women	p. 73
Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism b Posthuman?	p. 97
Reproducing the Posthuman Body: Ectogenic Fetus, Surrogate Mother, Pregnant Man	p. 113
The Seductive Power of Science in the Making of Deviant Subjectivity	p. 135
Phantom and Reel Projections: Lesbians and the (Serial) Killing-Machine	p. 162
"Death of the Family, or, Keeping Human Beings Human	p. 177
Reading Like an Alien: Posthuman Identity in Ridley Scott's Alien and David Cronenberg's Rabid	p. 203
Terminating Bodies: Toward a Cyborg History of Abortion	p. 225
"Once They Were Men, Now They're Landcrabs": Monstrous Becomings in Evolutionist Cinema	p. 244
Contributors	p. 267
Index	p. 270
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