Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls

[Dave Monroe]

Toffoletti, Kim.  Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls:
   Feminism, Popular Culture and the Posthuman Body.
   London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Bringing a lively and accessible style to a complex subject, "Cyborgs
and Barbie Dolls" explores the idea of the 'posthuman' and the ways in
which it is represented in popular culture. Toffoletti explores images
of the posthuman body from goth-rocker Marilyn Manson's digitally
manipulated self-portraits to the famous TDK 'baby' adverts, and from
the work of artist Patricia Piccinini to the curiously 'plastic' form
of the ubiquitous Barbie doll, controversially rescued here from her
negative image. Drawing on the work of thinkers including Baudrillard,
Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, "Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls" explores
the nature of the human - and its ambiguous gender - in an age of
biotechnologies and digital worlds.

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