Politics of Repair. Remaking the Human : : Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement / / ed. by Chiara Pussetti, Alvaro Jarrín.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Arango-Londoño, Alejandro,; Beaudoin, Christine,; Borodina, Svetlana,; Camoletto, Raffaella Ferrero,; Carpigo, Eva,; Grau, Begonya Enguix,; Howe, P. David,; Jarrín, Alvaro,; Manderson, Lenore,; Manica, Daniela Tonelli,; Nucci, Marina Fisher,; Paletta, Gabriela Cabral,; Pussetti, Chiara,; Rohden, Fabíola,; Schimitt, Marcelle,; Silva, Carla Filomena,; Wentzell, Emily,
• HerausgeberIn: Jarrín, Alvaro,; Pussetti, Chiara,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Politics of Repair ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)

The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cog...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION The Uncanny Aesthetics of Repairing, Reshaping, and Replacing Human Bodies
• PART I REPAIR
• CHAPTER 1 Ideologies of Repair in Erectile Dysfunction Treatment and “Men’s Health” Medicine
• CHAPTER 2 Repairing Sexual Aging: Italian GPs’ Discourses in the Viagra Era
• CHAPTER 3 Repairing the Body and Improving the Nation: Corrective Plastic Surgeries for Protruding Ears in Brazil
• CHAPTER 4 The Itinerant Beauty Brigade: Repairing Social Fractures through the Apapacho Estético
• PART II RESHAPING
• CHAPTER 5 Shaping the European Body: The Cosmetic Construction of Whiteness
• CHAPTER 6 Reshaping Masculinities and the Beauty Industry in Colombia
• CHAPTER 7 Reshaping and Hacking Gendered Bodies: Gay Bears and Pro-Independence Catalan Militants
• CHAPTER 8 Remaking (Post-)Human Bodies in the Anthropocene through Bioart Practices
• PART III REPLACEMENT
• CHAPTER 9 Can You See the Real Me? Cyborg, Supercrip, or Simply a Lover of Sport?
• CHAPTER 10 Unfixing Blindness: Retinal Implants and Negotiations of Ability in Postsocialist Russia
• CHAPTER 11 Learning through Apps: The Replacement of Offline Cis-Female Bodies with Digital Pregnancies and Menstruations
• CHAPTER 12 Remaking Desires and Femininities: Testosterone “Replacement” for Treating Women’s Sexuality in Brazil
• AFTERWORD Beyond the Flesh
• INDEX