Bodies in Flux : : a Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism / / Edited by Barbara Braid; Hanan Muzaffar.

• Superior document: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 128
• TeilnehmendeR: Braid, Barbara,; Muzaffar, Hanan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 128.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 pages).

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 transgres...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism / Hanan Muzaffar and Barbara Braid
• Streaming the Body: Digital Media and the Embodiment
• The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities / Dawn Woolley
• “Bodies We Obsess Upon”: Corporality and Gender Performance in The Heart Machine (2014) / Anna Pilińska
• Extending the Body: Biotechnology, Fluidity, Monstrosity
• Body Going ‘Gaga’: Lady Gaga, Disability and the Gothic Body / Barbara Braid
• “This Guy Is Such a Machine!”: Gendering the Amputee Body in Fashion and Lifestyle Media / Jana Melkumova-Reynolds
• Mexican Men Meet Cyborg Masculinity: Gendered Subjectivities in the Technology of Erection Era / Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca and Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodríguez
• Body at the End of Times: Fantasising Gender
• POISE, Miss Lane! Super-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s / Katharina Vester
• From Tannenberg Battle to Warsaw Uprising: Polish Masculinity from Human to Posthuman in Modern Polish Literature / Wojciech Śmieja
• Margaret Atwood’s Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity / Hanan Muzaffar
• Back Matter
• Index.