Infrahumanisms : culture, science, and the making of modern non/personhood /

Infrahumanisms : culture, science, and the making of modern non/personhood /

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Author / Creator:	Glick, Megan H., 1980- author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	xi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	ANIMA: critical race studies otherwise ANIMA (Duke University Press)
Subject:	Persons. Human beings. Human-animal relationships. Extraterrestrial beings. Human rights. Extraterrestrial beings. Human-animal relationships. Human beings. Human rights. Persons.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11726086

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ISBN:	9781478001164 147800116X 9781478001515 1478001518
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Considers how conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health. She examines the history of human and nonhuman subjectivity as told through twentieth-century scientific and cultural discourses that include pediatrics, primatology, eugenics, exobiology, and obesity research. outlining how the category of the human is continuously redefined in relation to the infrahuman - a liminal position of speciation existing between the human and the nonhuman - the author reads a number of phenomena, from early twentieth-century efforts to define children and higher order primates as liminally human and the postwar cultural fascination with extraterrestrial life to anxieties over AIDS, SARS, and other cross-species diseases. in these cases the efforts to define a universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce notions of human difference and maintain human-nonhuman hierarchies. In foregrounding how evolving definitions of the human reflect shifting attitudes about social inequality, the author shows how the consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of long-held truths about biological meaning and difference.
Other form:	Online version: Glick, Megan H., 1980- Infrahumanisms. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9781478002598

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