| Description |
xi, 127 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Interpretations, 1039-6128 |
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Interpretations
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Written on the Body. Mind/body dualism. Feminist critiques. Theorists of class and race. The 'normal' body. From consciousness to embodied subjectivity. Postmodern bodies. Bodies and technology: cyborg bodies. Postmodern bodies and desire. Foucault -- 2. (En)acting, (Per)forming Gender: Bodies, Sexes, Sexualities. Politicising the gendered body. (En)acting gender: bodies, sexes, sexualities. (Re)production, gender in performance -- 3. Embodying the Other: Inscriptions of Race and Ethnicity. Racial stereotyping and bodily inscription. Bodies and ethnicities. Race and ethnicity: degrees of 'otherness' -- 4. Classifying Bodies: Inscriptions of Class. Class(ify)ing the body. Sexuality: class and/of the body. Body techniques: classing the body -- 5. Cyborgs and Wet-ware: Technologised Bodies. Cyborgs: machine-men and the man-made body. Cyborg manifesto: (re)positioning the cyborg. Wet-ware: infotech and embodiment. Rhizome versus gap: new conceptualisations of desire -- 6. Conclusion: The Body in the Text. The body and/as the text. Embodying new femininities and masculinities. The body in the text |
| Summary |
Male/female, white/black, mind/body: the ways in which we think about ourselves and others can be reduced to apparently simple dichotomies based on the body. But these fundamental distinctions, part of our thought since the time of the ancient Greeks, face irrevocable breakdown as we stand on the edge of revolutions in artificial intelligence, robotics and genetic engineering that will change for ever what these oppositions attempt to define: what it means to be human. Anne Cranny-Francis gives a lucid and stylish introduction to the ways in which the body is represented in literature and films such as the Terminator series, Blade Runner and Educating Rita. Her clear, considered analysis shows how these representations are used as critiques of our society by writers on gender, sexuality, race and class, and describes how these representations have changed the relationships between our understandings of the body and the ways in which we live and think about our world |
| Notes |
CIP confirmed |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography pages 114-123 |
| Subject |
Body image.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
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Human body in literature.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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| LC no. |
96139405 |
| ISBN |
0522845754 (paperback) |
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