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Different Voices
Gender and Posthumanism, Passages - Transitions - Intersections 10
ISBN/EAN: 9783847115281
Umbreit-Nr.: 6527922
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 238 S.
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Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 05.12.2022
Auflage: 1/2022
- Zusatztext
- The concept of the "human" has been broadly re-visited and changed, as well as the "posthuman" has become a term of continuous inquiry. Gender (representations) play(s) a critical/decisive role in the works of literature, culture, and art, and focusing on gender is crucial to uncovering the anthropocentrism or androcentrism that may underlie the work or the times it belongs to. While maintaining a solid literary emphasis, the ten chapters included in this volume focus on feminist debates on women, technology, and the body, on gender representation and the posthuman, on post-gender figurations, on gender and trans/post/humanism, biotechnology/biopolitics/bioethics, on feminist posthumanism, on animals, human-machine and ecological posthumanism. The aim of the volume is to analyse how useful these concepts might be for thinking about the subject, its definition and identity in a changing society.
- Kurztext
- Literary Representations of Gender and Posthumanism
- Autorenportrait
- Prof Dr Paola Partenza is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Among the many authors to whom she has devoted essays are William Godwin, Mary Hays, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, T. S. Eliot, Shakespeare and Andrew Marvell.
- Schlagzeile
- Gender (representations) play(s) a critical/decisive role in the works of literature, culture, and art, and focusing on gender is crucial to uncovering the anthropocentrism or androcentrism that may underlie the work or the times it belongs to. While maintaining a solid literary emphasis, the ten chapters included in this volume focus on feminist debates on women, technology, and the body, on gender representation and the posthuman, on post-gender figurations, on gender and trans/post/humanism, biotechnology/biopolitics/bioethics, on feminist posthumanism, on animals, human-machine and ecological posthumanism.