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Infrahumanisms
Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood
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Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2018
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Megan H. Glick considers how twentieth-century conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health, showing how efforts to define a universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce various forms of social inequality.
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Megan H. Glick is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University.
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“Infrahumanisms is an ambitious book that shows the applicability of the term ‘infrahuman’ to a wide range of historical contexts and highlights how these relate to constructions of sexual, racial, gender, and bodily difference…. Offering analyses of an impressive range of twentieth-century scientific and cultural phenomena, from the emergence of primatology to extraterrestrial sightings in the postwar era and contemporary xenotransplantation, Infrahumanisms will be of interest to scholars working in the history of sexuality, critical race studies, animal studies, medical humanities, and science studies.”
-- Ina Linge Journal of the History of Sexuality
“It is a rare work that can bring together topics as disparate as childhood, nonhuman primates, aliens, xenotransplantation, and AIDS…. Full of surprising connections and intriguing insights, Infrahumanisms is a rich and stimulating contribution to the literature on eugenics, biomedicalization, and biopolitics in general.”
-- Rose Trappes Metascience
“The scholarly discussions in both human-animal studies and posthuman theory have been insufficiently attentive to race and colonial histories, and Glick’s work is a welcome addition to these conversations, showing gaps in previous ways of thinking about the ideological functions of the animal/human boundary.”
-- Sherryl Vint Catalyst
“Infrahumanisms shows how beliefs about species categories, species relations, and species hierarchies form the ground from which ideas about biological essentialism, humane behavior, and dehumanization often grow…. Glick’s methods and style in Infrahumanisms are bold and refreshing…. Readers will find this book to be generous, opening up lines of inquiry that may be taken up elsewhere.”
-- Rebecah Pulsifer Women's Studies Quarterly
“Glick presents a new focus on the history of dehumanization and devaluation, of cultural and political exclusion based on differential conditions of embodiment including race, gender, sexuality, disability, and disease status…. A dense yet rewarding read. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.”
-- J. A. Kegley Choice
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION. Toward a Theory of Infrahumanity
1 - PART I. Bioexpansionism, 1900s –1930s
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1. Brief Histories of Time
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2. Ocular Anthropomorphisms Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human”
56 - PART II. Extraterrestriality, 1940s –1970s
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3. On Alien Ground
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4. Inner and Outer Spaces
110 - PART III. Interiority, 1980s –2010s
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5. Of Sodomy and Cannibalism
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6. Everything except the Squeal
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Conclusion. The Plurality Is Near
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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18. Oktober 2018
eBook ISBN:
9781478002598
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288
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35 illustrations
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