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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Local Whitenesses, Localizing Whiteness -- Fictions of Whiteness: Speaking the Names of Whiteness in U.S. Literature -- Rereading Gandhi -- Theorizing White Consciousness for a Post-Empire World: Barthes, Fanon, and the Rhetoric of Love -- On the Social Construction of Whiteness within Selected Chicana/o Discourses -- Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination -- Locating White Detroit -- Brown-Skinned White Girls: Class, Culture, and the Construction of White Identity in Suburban Communities -- Laboring under Whiteness -- Island Racism: Gender, Place, and White Power -- Minstrel Shows, Affirmative Action Talk, and Angry White Men: Marking Racial Otherness in the 1990S -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Cyberspace, the cyborg and cyberpunk have given feminists new imaginative possibilities for thinking about embodiment and identity in relation to technology. This is the first anthology of the key essays on these potent metaphors. Divided into three sections (Technology, Embodiment and Cyberspace; Cybersubjects: Cyborgs and Cyberpunks; Cyborg Futures), the book addresses different aspects of the human-technology interface. The extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theory and indicates the context for the specific essays. This is an invaluable guide for students studying any aspects of contemporary theory and culture.Brings together in a unique collection the work of key authors in feminist and cyber theoryDemonstrates the wide range of contemporary critical workChallenges constructions of gender, race and classAn extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theoryBrief section introductions indicate the context for the specific essays

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- SECTION I RENDERING OF SELF: PERSONAL NARRATIVES/ PERSONAL ADORNMENT -- CHAPTER 1 Wearing Identity: Chicanas and Huipiles -- CHAPTER 2 Con el huipil en la mente: The Metamorphosis of a Chicana -- CHAPTER 3 "Rebozos, huipiles, y ¿Qué?": Chicana Self-Fashioning in the Academy -- CHAPTER 4 Por la facha y por el traje, se conoce al personaje: Tales about Attire as Resistance and Performativity in a Chicana's Life Trajectory -- CHAPTER 5 A Familial Legacy of meXicana Style -- SECTION II THE POLITICS OF DRESS: SAYING IT LOUD/SAYING IT CLEAR -- CHAPTER 6 Buying the Dream: Relating "Traditional" Dress to Consumer Practices in US Quinceañeras -- CHAPTER 7 Visuality, Corporality, and Power -- CHAPTER 8 Black, Brown, and Fa(t)shionable: The Role of Fat Women of Color in the Rise of Body Positivity -- CHAPTER 9 Fashioning Decolonial Optics: Days of the Dead Walking Altars and Calavera Fashion Shows in Latina/o Los Angeles -- CHAPTER 10 "Fierce and Fearless": Dress and Identity in Rigoberto González's The Mariposa Club -- SECTION III THE POLITICS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: MAKING (IT)/SELLING (IT) -- CHAPTER 11 Lydia Mendoza, "Reina de la Música Tejana": Self-Stylizing Mexicanidad through China Poblana in the US-Mexico Borderlands -- CHAPTER 12 (Ad)Dressing Chicana/Latina Femininities: Consumption, Labor, and the Cultural Politics of Style in Latina Fashion -- CHAPTER 13 Urban Xican/x-Indigenous Fashion Show ARTivism: Experimental Perform-Antics in Three Actos -- Contributors -- Index