Digital Fissures: Bodies, Genders, Technologies (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798888900178

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2023

Synopsis

Digital Fissures offers numerous lenses through which to explore the relationships between genders, bodies and technologies. It rethinks feminist archives, argues for inserting postpornography into academia, approaching sex toys from a transpositive perspective, and examines attempts to dismantle the foundations of techno-capitalism. Each chapter works to reimagine the body as a hybrid, malleable and subversive source of potentiality. These essays provide readers with road maps for unimagined and uncharted social scapes: guides to working within a space of monstrosity demanded by the relationship between bodies-technologies-genders. Through this embodied discomfort, Digital Fissures questions existing techno-social norms, and imagines transfeminist futures.

Contributors are: Carlotta Cossutta, Valentina Greco, Arianna Mainardi, Stefania Voli, Lucía Egña Rojas, Ludovico Virtù;, Angela Balzano, Obiezione Respinta, Elisa Virgili, Rachele Borghi, and Diego Marchante "Genderhacker".

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About the Authors

Carlotta Cossutta is a postdoctoral researcher in Political Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont. Publications include: "Transfeminist politics and populist counterattacks in Italy" (European Journal of English Studies), "Maternal relations, feminism and surrogate motherhood in the Italian context (Modern Italy), and Linguistic Traps. Identity and Differences Through Institutions, Law, Politics and the Gender Binary (Routledge, 2018).

Valentina Greco has an MA in Gender Studies and a Ph.D. in Women’s History and Gender Identity. Publications include: L’ago dentro e fuori.’ Il nodo memoria/storia nel caso della deportazione (Genesis. Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche), Geography and the ICT: New Technolgies and Geographical Research (Bononia University Press), and In Italia abortire è ancora un diritto a metà (Internazionale).

Arianna Mainardi holds a Ph.D. in Information Society from the Università degli studi di Milano. Publications include: "Young People Between Uncertainty and Agency. An Analysis of the Strategies of Transition to Adulthood in Italy" (Italian Journal of Sociology and Education), "At the Roots of Media Cultures. Social Movements Producing Knowledge About Media as Discriminatory Workspaces" (Information Communication & Society), and "Sexuality and Power in Contemporary Italy: Subjectivities between Gender Norms, Agency and Social Transformation" (Modern Italy).

Stefania Voli holds a Ph.D. in Citizenship, Rights and Gender Equality in Modern and Contemporary History (University of L’Orientale Naples), and a Ph.D. in Applied Sociology and Social Research Methodology (University of Milan–Bicocca). Publications include: "Young People Between Uncertainty and Agency. An Analysis of the Strategies of Transition to Adulthood in Italy"> (Italian Journal of Sociology and Education) and Modificazioni corporee e cittadinanza transgender. Il caso del Movimento Identità Transessuale di Bologna, (doctoral thesis).

Julia Heim is a Lecturer of Foreign Language at the University of Pennsylvania. Their research centers on LGBTQIA+ representation in Italian Media. Together with Sole Anatrone, they have published the edited volumes Queering Italian Media and Spaghetti Sissies Queering Italian Media, as well as numerous journal articles on inclusive practices in the Italian classroom.

Edition details

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798888900178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148
• Editor: Cossutta Carlotta, Greco Valentina, Mainardi Arianna, Voli Stefania