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Remaking the human : cosmetic technologies of body repair, reshaping, and replacement / edited by Alvaro Jarrín and Chiara Pussetti.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Politics of repair ; volume 2.
- Politics of repair ; volume 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--Cross-cultural studies.
- Material culture.
- Repairing--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
- Repairing.
- Applied anthropology--Cross-cultural studies.
- Applied anthropology.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 279 pages) : color illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction. The Uncanny Aesthetics of Repairing, Reshaping, and Replacing Human Bodies
- Part 1. REPAIR. Ideologies of repair in erectile dysfunction treatment and "Men's Health" medicine
- Repairing sexual aging: Italian GPs' discourses in the Viagra era
- Repairing the body and improving the nation: Corrective plastic surgeries for protruding ears in Brazil
- The itinerant beauty brigade: Repairing social fractures through the Apapacho Estético
- Part 2. RESHAPING. Shaping the European body: The cosmetic construction of whiteness
- Reshaping masculinities and the beauty industry in Colombia
- Reshaping and hacking gendered bodies: Gay Bears and pro-independence Catalan militants
- Remaking (post) human bodies in the Anthropocene through bioart practices
- Part 3. REPLACEMENT. Can you see the realmMe? Cyborg, supercrip, or simply a lover of sport? Unfixing blindness: Retinal implants and negotiations of ability in postsocialist Russia
- Learning through apps: The replacement of offline Cis-female bodies with digital pregnancies and menstruations
- Remaking desires and femininities: Testosterone "Replacement" for treating women's sexuality in Brazil
- Afterword. Beyond the Flesh.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 28, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Remaking the human
- ISBN:
- 9781800730328
- 1800730322
- Publisher Number:
- 40030501139
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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