Author Description

"It is a collection of essays that takes up, in a mostly affirmative way, various challenges to the coherence of the "human body" as a figure through which culture is processed and oriented." Partial contents: The end of the world of White Men; Class and its close relations: identities among women, servants, and machines; Soft fictions and intimate documents: can feminism be posthuman?; Reproducing the posthuman body: ectogenetic fetus, surrogate mother, pregnant man; The seductive power of science in the making of deviant subjectivity; Phantom and reel projections lesbians and the (serial) killing-machine; "Death of the family."