| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9783319281414 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Call number |
306.7 DU TE |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Authors |
Durham, Meenakshi Gigi |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Technosex : |
| Subtitle |
precarious corporealities, mediated sexualities, and the ethics of embodied technics |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Meenakshi Gigi Durham |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
London : |
| Publisher |
Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Date |
c2016. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
ix, 164 p. ; |
| Size |
22 cm. |
| CONTENTS |
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Gender Trouble in Galatealand; Sexing the€Cyborg; Mediating Galatea; Subjectivity Matters: Signifying Body-Subjects; Corporeal Visions, Sexual Mirages; Chapter 2: Visible Technosexualities; Chapter 3: Sexting It Up; Chapter 4: What We€Talk About When We€Talk About Sex; Chapter 5: Galvanizing the€Frankenbabe: Sex-Media-Self; Chapter 6: Technosex and€the€Politics of€Location; Chapter 7: Conclusions: Ethics for€TechnoRebels-The Power of€Embodied Vulnerability; Bibliography; Index. |
| SUMMARY |
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| Summary |
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 of desire. These technosexual interactions hold the promise of sexual liberation and boldly imaginative pleasures. But in the machinic suturing of technologies with bodies, the politics of race, class, gender, and nation continue to matter. Paying acute attention to media's relationship to the politics of location, social hierarchies, and regulatory schemas, the author mounts a lucid and passionate argument for an ethics of technosex invested in the analysis of power. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Heading |
Mass media and sex |
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| Topical Heading |
Communication and sex |
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| Topical Heading |
Communication and technology |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://uowd.box.com/s/k78aqq08661ow064bal9f13f0y25k0ma |
| Public note |
Location Map |
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