Cyborg identities

This selection covers questions of cyborg and posthuman identity; embodiment, gender and difference.

Adam, Alison 1998. Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine. London & New York: Routledge.

Balsamo, Anne 1996. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Bukatman, Scott 1993. Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Fiction. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Terry, Jennifer and Calvert, Melodie (eds.) 1997. Processed Lives: Gendered Technology in Everyday Life. London and New York: Routledge.

Kolko, Beth E., Nakamura, Lisa and Rodman, Gilbert B. (eds.) 2000. Race in Cyberspace. London and New York: Routledge.

Franklin, Sarah & Ragone, Helena (eds.) 1998. Reproducing reproduction. Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Haraway, Donna J. 1991. Simians, Cyborgs and Women. The Re-invention of nature. London: Free Association Books.

Haraway, Donna J. 1997. Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™. London & New York: Routledge.

Hayles, N. Katherine 1999. How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Stone, Allucquere Rosanne 1996. The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: The MIT Press.

Turkle, Sherry 1996. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

online:

Braidotti, Rosi 1998. 'Difference, diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity'.
http://women.ped.kun.nl/cbt/rosilecture.html

Suchman, Lucy 2000. 'Human/Machine Reconsidered', published by the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University at: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/soc040ls.html

Voice of the Shuttle Gender Studies page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/gender.html