Different Voices: Gender and Posthumanism

Abstract

While maintaining a solid literary emphasis, this volume focuses on gender and theposthuman from different viewpoints and discourses. The entire collection focuses on feministdebates on women, technology, and the body; gender representation and the posthuman; post-gender figurations; gender and transhumanism; gender and (post)humanism; gender andbiotechnology/biopolitics/bioethics; feminist posthumanism; animal, human-machine, ecologicalposthumanism. The essays in this collection critically explore how fruitful and vital these topics arein reading the works of twentieth and twenty-first-century works and understanding the concept ofidentity, individuality, embodiment, and entanglement in an ever-changing society. To address theconcepts of gender and posthumanism as a cultural problem central to literary studies seemed to beurgent for two reasons: 1) modern and postmodern scholarly studies have believed that thediscourse of gender and posthumanism has been one of its major concerns. Most of these studiescan be taken as contributions to the history of ideas. 2) Literary studies do not only express andtrigger the relationship between gender and posthumanism, but it incorporates them. It seems afundamental generator of paradigm scenarios by which gender-posthumanism connection isculturally conditioned.