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Author Du Preez, Amanda.

Title Gendered Bodies and New Technologies : Rethinking Embodiment in a Cyber-era
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

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Description 1 online resource (210 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary In this era of ubiquitous information flow, heightened mobility and limitless consumer convenience, human interaction with new technologies has become increasingly seamless. In the process the human body is effectively and steadily reduced to just another interface or a "second life", so to speak. What is easily forgotten during this translucent transaction is that being human also necessarily implies being embodied. In other words, to constitute a body in its non-negotiable physicality is st ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-183) and index
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Subject Human-computer interaction -- Social aspects
Human-machine systems -- Social aspects
Technology -- Social aspects.
Information society.
Gender studies: women.
Feminism & feminist theory.
Cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Human-computer interaction -- Social aspects
Human-machine systems -- Social aspects
Information society
Technology -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443815413
1443815411
9781443813235
1443813230