Somatechnics : Queering the Technologisation of Bodies.

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Main Author: Murray, Samantha
Other Authors: Sullivan, Nikki
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Taylor and Francis, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Series Editorsâ#x80;#x99; Preface: Originary Somatechnicity; Introduction; SECTION ONE THE SOMATECHNICS OF THE SOCIAL BODY; 1 Diseased States: The Role of Pathology in the (Re)Production of the Body Politic; 2 Bodies Politic? Public Sculptures and the Queering of National Space in Londonâ#x80;#x99;s Trafalgar Square; 3 Kingâ#x80;#x99;s Member, Queenâ#x80;#x99;s Body: Transsexual Surgery, Self-Demand Amputation and the Somatechnics of Sovereign Power; 4 Asian Sex Workers in Australia: Somatechnologies of Trafficking and Queer Mobilities.
  • SECTION TWO SOMATECHNOLOGIES OF SEX/GENDER5 Queering Spinozaâ#x80;#x99;s Somatechnics: Stem Cells, Strategic Sacralisations and Fantasies of Care and Kind; 6 Sexing the Cherry: Fixing Masculinity; 7 Speaking Transsexuality in the Cinematic Tongue; 8 â#x80;#x98;Banded Bodiesâ#x80;#x99;: The Somatechnics of Gastric Banding; SECTION THREE SOMATECHNIQUES OF THE SELF; 9 Queer Monsters: Technologies of Self-Transformation in Bulwerâ#x80;#x99;s Anthropometamorphosis and Braidottiâ#x80;#x99;s Metamorphoses; 10 A Somatechnological Paradigm: How do you Make Yourself a Body without Organs?