Gendered bodies and new technologies: Rethinking embodiment in a cyber-era

Gendered bodies and new technologies

In this era of ubiquitous information flow, heightened mobility and limitless consumer convenience, human interaction with new technologies has become increasingly seamless. In the process, the human body is effectively and steadily reduced to just another interface, or a “second life”, so to speak. What is easily forgotten during this translucent transaction is that being human also necessarily implies being embodied. In other words, to constitute a body in its non-negotiable physicality is still what it entails to be human (amongst other things). To live daily in and through the complicated and dynamic intersection between “mind” and “body”, psychology and physiology―also known as embodiment―is what makes us human.

Gendered Bodies and New Technologies: Rethinking Embodiment in a Cyber-era

Author: Amanda du Preez

Date Of Publication: Oct 2009

Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1323-5

Isbn: 1-4438-1323-0