Posthuman Bodies

JUDITH M. HALBERSTAM is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California-San Diego. IRA LIVINGSTON is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Posthuman Bodies—Judith Halberstam and Ira LivingstonPart One: MultiplesIdentity in Oshkosh—Allucquere Rosanne StoneTwo Lessons from Burroughs—Steven ShaviorPart Two: Some GendersThe End of the World of White Men—Kathy AckerClass and Its Close Relations: Identities Among Women, Servants and Machines—Alexandra ChasinSoft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism be Posthuman?—Paula RabinowitzReproducing the Posthuman Body: Ectogenic Fetus, Surrogate Mother, Pregnant Man—Susan SquierPart Three: QueeringThe Seductive Power of Science in the Making of Deviant Subjectivity—Jennifer TerryPhantom and Reel Projections: Lesbians and the (Serial)Killing Machine—Camilla GriggersDeath of the Family or Keeping Human Beings Human—Roddey ReidPart Four: Terminal BodiesReading Like an Alien: Posthuman Identity in Alien and Rabid—Kelly HurleyTerminating Bodies: Toward A Cyborg History of Abortion—Carol Mason"Once They Were Men, Now They're Landcrabs": Monstrous Becomings in Evolutionist Cinema—Eric WhiteIndex