Bodies in Flux: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism -- Part 1 Streaming the Body: Digital Media and the Embodiment -- Chapter 1 The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities -- References -- Chapter 2 "Bodies We Obsess Upon": Corporality and Gender Performance in The Heart Machine (2014) -- References -- Part 2 Extending the Body: Biotechnology, Fluidity, Monstrosity -- Chapter 3 Body Going 'Gaga': Lady Gaga, Disability and the Gothic Body -- References -- Chapter 4 "This Guy Is Such a Machine!": Gendering the Amputee Body in Fashion and Lifestyle Media -- References -- Chapter 5 Mexican Men Meet Cyborg Masculinity: Gendered Subjectivities in the Technology of Erection Era -- References -- Part 3 Body at the End of Times: Fantasising Gender -- Chapter 6 POISE, Miss Lane! Super-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s -- References -- Chapter 7 From Tannenberg Battle to Warsaw Uprising: Polish Masculinity from Human to Posthuman in Modern Polish Literature -- References -- Chapter 8 Margaret Atwood's Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity -- References -- Index.

Chapter 4 "This Guy Is Such a Machine!": Gendering the Amputee Body in Fashion and Lifestyle MediaReferences; Chapter 5 Mexican Men Meet Cyborg Masculinity: Gendered Subjectivities in the Technology of Erection Era; References; Part 3 Body at the End of Times: Fantasising Gender; Chapter 6 POISE, Miss Lane! Super-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s; References; Chapter 7 From Tannenberg Battle to Warsaw Uprising: Polish Masculinity from Human to Posthuman in Modern Polish Literature; References; Chapter 8 Margaret Atwood's Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity

"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 transgressor of boundaries, the book examines fluidity of post-human bodies - from cyber relations to others and to self, enabled by the latest technologies, through fragmented, prostheticised, monstrous or augmented body of popular culture and lifestyles, to the dis/utopian fantasies offered by literary texts - showing how difficult it still is in current culture to let go of the stable boundaries towards the post-gender world Haraway imagines. Contributors are Dawn Wooley, Anna Pilinska, Barbara Braid, Jana Reynolds, Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca, Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodriguez, Katharina Vester, Wojciech Smieja and Hanan Muzaffar." -- Backside cover