Bodies in Flux

This volume offers an insight into a selection of current issues of the embodiment and other related aspects, such as identity, gender, disability, or sexuality, discussed on the examples from contemporary culture and social life. Inspired by Donna Haraway's concept of the cyborg as a transgressor of boundaries, the book examines fluidity of the post-human bodies - from the cyber relations to others and to self, enabled by latest technologies, through fragmented, prosetheticised, monstrous or augmented body of the popular culture and lifestyles, to the dis/utopian fantasies offered by literary texts - showing how difficult it still is in current culture to let go of the stable boundaries towards a post-gender world Haraway imagines. Contributors are Dawn Wooley, Anna Pilińska, Barbara Braid, Jana Reynolds, Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca, Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodr guez, Katharina Vester, Wojciech Śmieja and Hanan Muzaffar.