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At the Borders of the Human
. Ed(S): Fudge, Erica; Gilbert, Ruth; Wiseman, Susan
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Paperback. This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world. This collection considers the borders between humans and their imagined others; animals, women, native subjects and machines and examines border creatures and border practices such as pornography. Editor(s): Fudge, Erica; Gilbert, Ruth; Wiseman, Susan. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 441.
What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world. The development of Renaissance technologies of difference such as mapping, colonialism and anatomy paradoxically also illuminated the similarities between human and non-human. This collection considers the borders between humans and their imagined others: animals, women, native subjects, machines. It examines border creatures (hermaphrodites, wildmen and cyborgs) and border practices (science, surveying and pornography).
What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world. The development of Renaissance technologies of difference such as mapping, colonialism and anatomy paradoxically also illuminated the similarities between human and non-human. This collection considers the borders between humans and their imagined others: animals, women, native subjects, machines. It examines border creatures (hermaphrodites, wildmen and cyborgs) and border practices (science, surveying and pornography).
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333973844
SKU
V9780333973844
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Fudge, Erica; Gilbert, Ruth; Wiseman, Susan
BRIAN CUMMINGS Lecturer in English in the School of European Studies, University of Essex JESS EDWARDS University of North London MARGARET HEALY Lecturer in the School of English and American Studies, University of Sussex MICHAEL NEWTON Author and Editor MARY PEACE co-editor with Vincent Quinn of a Textual Practice special edition entitled Luxurious Sexualities and The Body Politic in Eighteenth-Century ... Read more
Reviews for At the Borders of the Human
'all [the essays] are lively and original, and offer new perspectives on a provocative and... inexhaustible subject' - Eileen Reeves, Renaissance Quarterly 'The essays...open up [a] neglected aspect of our cultural history' - David Salter, Cahiers Elizabéthains