Infrahumanisms
Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood
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Published on 18. October 2018
288 pages
978-1-4780-0259-8 (ISBN)
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Megan H. Glick considers how twentieth-century conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health, showing how efforts to define a universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce various forms of social inequality.
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Megan H. Glick is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Toward a Theory of Infrahumanity 1
Part I. Bioexpansionism, 1900s-1930s
1. Brief Histories of Time: Nature, Culture, and the Making of Modern Childhood 29
2. Ocular Anthropomorphisms:Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the "Almost Human" 56
Part II. Extraterrestriality, 1940s-1970s
3. On Alien Ground: Extraterrestrial Sightings, Atomic Warfare, and the Undoing of the Human Body 85
4. Inner and Outer Spaces: Exobiology, Human Genetics, and the Disembodiment of Corporeal Difference 110
Part III. Interiority, 1980s-2010s
5. Of Sodomy and Cannibalism: Disgust, Dehumanization, and the Rhetorics of Same-Sex and Cross-Species Contagion 139
6. Everything except the Squeal: Porcine Hybridity in the Obesity Epidemic and Xenotransplantation Research 159
Conclusion. The Plurality Is Near: Techniques of Symbiotic Re-speciation 196
Notes 209
Bibliography 247
Index 263
Introduction: Toward a Theory of Infrahumanity 1
Part I. Bioexpansionism, 1900s-1930s
1. Brief Histories of Time: Nature, Culture, and the Making of Modern Childhood 29
2. Ocular Anthropomorphisms:Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the "Almost Human" 56
Part II. Extraterrestriality, 1940s-1970s
3. On Alien Ground: Extraterrestrial Sightings, Atomic Warfare, and the Undoing of the Human Body 85
4. Inner and Outer Spaces: Exobiology, Human Genetics, and the Disembodiment of Corporeal Difference 110
Part III. Interiority, 1980s-2010s
5. Of Sodomy and Cannibalism: Disgust, Dehumanization, and the Rhetorics of Same-Sex and Cross-Species Contagion 139
6. Everything except the Squeal: Porcine Hybridity in the Obesity Epidemic and Xenotransplantation Research 159
Conclusion. The Plurality Is Near: Techniques of Symbiotic Re-speciation 196
Notes 209
Bibliography 247
Index 263
