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Author: Megan H. Glick
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9781478001164
ISBN 10: 147800116
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 28 December 2018
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Infrahumanisms is an ambitious book that shows the applicability of the term 'infrahuman' to a wide range of historical contexts and highlights how these relate to constructions of sexual, racial, gender, and bodily difference.... Offering analyses of an impressive range of twentieth-century scientific and cultural phenomena, from the emergence of primatology to extraterrestrial sightings in the postwar era and contemporary xenotransplantation, Infrahumanisms will be of interest to scholars working in the history of sexuality, critical race studies, animal studies, medical humanities, and science studies. -- Ina Linge * Journal of the History of Sexuality * It is a rare work that can bring together topics as disparate as childhood, nonhuman primates, aliens, xenotransplantation, and AIDS.... Full of surprising connections and intriguing insights, Infrahumanisms is a rich and stimulating contribution to the literature on eugenics, biomedicalization, and biopolitics in general. -- Rose Trappes * Metascience * The scholarly discussions in both human-animal studies and posthuman theory have been insufficiently attentive to race and colonial histories, and Glick's work is a welcome addition to these conversations, showing gaps in previous ways of thinking about the ideological functions of the animal/human boundary. -- Sherryl Vint * Catalyst * Infrahumanisms shows how beliefs about species categories, species relations, and species hierarchies form the ground from which ideas about biological essentialism, humane behavior, and dehumanization often grow.... Glick's methods and style in Infrahumanisms are bold and refreshing.... Readers will find this book to be generous, opening up lines of inquiry that may be taken up elsewhere. -- Rebecah Pulsifer * Women's Studies Quarterly * Glick presents a new focus on the history of dehumanization and devaluation, of cultural and political exclusion based on differential conditions of embodiment including race, gender, sexuality, disability, and disease status.... A dense yet rewarding read. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. -- J. A. Kegley * Choice *
Glick presents a new focus on the history of dehumanization and devaluation, of cultural and political exclusion based on differential conditions of embodiment including race, gender, sexuality, disability, and disease status.... A dense yet rewarding read. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. -- J. A. Kegley * Choice * Infrahumanisms shows how beliefs about species categories, species relations, and species hierarchies form the ground from which ideas about biological essentialism, humane behavior, and dehumanization often grow.... Glick's methods and style in Infrahumanisms are bold and refreshing.... Readers will find this book to be generous, opening up lines of inquiry that may be taken up elsewhere. -- Rebecah Pulsifer * Women's Studies Quarterly * The scholarly discussions in both human-animal studies and posthuman theory have been insufficiently attentive to race and colonial histories, and Glick's work is a welcome addition to these conversations, showing gaps in previous ways of thinking about the ideological functions of the animal/human boundary. -- Sherryl Vint * Catalyst * It is a rare work that can bring together topics as disparate as childhood, nonhuman primates, aliens, xenotransplantation, and AIDS.... Full of surprising connections and intriguing insights, Infrahumanisms is a rich and stimulating contribution to the literature on eugenics, biomedicalization, and biopolitics in general. -- Rose Trappes * Metascience * Infrahumanisms is an ambitious book that shows the applicability of the term 'infrahuman' to a wide range of historical contexts and highlights how these relate to constructions of sexual, racial, gender, and bodily difference.... Offering analyses of an impressive range of twentieth-century scientific and cultural phenomena, from the emergence of primatology to extraterrestrial sightings in the postwar era and contemporary xenotransplantation, Infrahumanisms will be of interest to scholars working in the history of sexuality, critical race studies, animal studies, medical humanities, and science studies. -- Ina Linge * Journal of the History of Sexuality *
Author Information
Megan H. Glick is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University.
