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Technosex: Precarious Corporealities, Mediated Sexualities, and the Ethics of Embodied Technics
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
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In this book, Meenakshi Gigi Durham outlines and advances a progressive feminist framework for digital ethics in the technosexual landscape, exploring the complex and evolving interrelationships between sex and tech. Today we live in a sexscape, a globalized assemblage of media, transnational capital, sexual practices, and identities. Sexuality suffuses the contemporary media-saturated environment; we engage with sex via cellphone apps and airport TVs, billboards and Jumbotron screens. Our techniques of sexual representation and body transformation - from sexting to plastic surgeries - occur in relation to our deep and complex engagements with mediated images ... Read more
In this book, Meenakshi Gigi Durham outlines and advances a progressive feminist framework for digital ethics in the technosexual landscape, exploring the complex and evolving interrelationships between sex and tech. Today we live in a sexscape, a globalized assemblage of media, transnational capital, sexual practices, and identities. Sexuality suffuses the contemporary media-saturated environment; we engage with sex via cellphone apps and airport TVs, billboards and Jumbotron screens. Our techniques of sexual representation and body transformation - from sexting to plastic surgeries - occur in relation to our deep and complex engagements with mediated images ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
164
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319281414
SKU
V9783319281414
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Ref
99-15
About Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Meenakshi Gigi Durham is Professor and Collegiate Scholar at the University of Iowa. Her research on media, gender, and sexualities has appeared in leading academic journals. She is the author of The Lolita Effect and the co-editor of Media and Cultural Studies: Key Works. In 2014, she received the International Communication Association's Teresa Award for feminist scholarship.
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