Different Voices: Gender and Posthumanism

V&R unipress - Universitätsverlag Osnabrücks, Göttingen, 2022

While maintaining a solid literary emphasis, this volume focuses on gender and the

posthuman from different viewpoints and discourses. The entire collection focuses on feminist

debates on women, technology, and the body; gender representation and the posthuman; post-

gender figurations; gender and transhumanism; gender and (post)humanism; gender and

biotechnology/biopolitics/bioethics; feminist posthumanism; animal, human-machine, ecological

posthumanism. The essays in this collection critically explore how fruitful and vital these topics are

in reading the works of twentieth and twenty-first-century works and understanding the concept of

identity, individuality, embodiment, and entanglement in an ever-changing society. To address the

concepts of gender and posthumanism as a cultural problem central to literary studies seemed to be

urgent for two reasons: 1) modern and postmodern scholarly studies have believed that the

discourse of gender and posthumanism has been one of its major concerns. Most of these studies

can be taken as contributions to the history of ideas. 2) Literary studies do not only express and

trigger the relationship between gender and posthumanism, but it incorporates them. It seems a

fundamental generator of paradigm scenarios by which gender-posthumanism connection is

culturally conditioned.