Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Remaking the Human

Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement

Edited by: Alvaro Jarrín and Chiara Pussetti

Volume 2 in the series Politics of Repair

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730328

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About this book

The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cognitive and sexual enhancers, lifestyle drugs, prosthetics and hormone supplements. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.

Author / Editor information

Alvaro Jarrín is Associate Professor of Anthropology at College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil (University of California Press, 2017).

Chiara Pussetti is Auxiliar Researcher at Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She has researched and published extensively on the subjects of migration, healthcare, gender, body and emotions, social inequality, suffering and well-being in urban contexts.

Alvaro Jarrín is Associate Professor of Anthropology at College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil (University of California Press, 2017).

Reviews

“This is a brilliant collection of essays about recent trends on body modifications and bodily performances… this is a great example of how anthropology can move on, addressing new issues while keeping grounded on the overarching questions of free-will and social determinations, resources and inequalities.” • Cristiana Bastos, University of Lisbon

“The book presents a timely and serious interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary body modification practices located in diverse cultural contexts. A range of topics/practices are covered and the importance of an intersectional frame is emphasized throughout. It constitutes an original contribution to a field dominated by health-focused and psychological accounts.” • Brendan Gough, Leeds Beckett University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION The Uncanny Aesthetics of Repairing, Reshaping, and Replacing Human Bodies Alvaro Jarrín and Chiara Pussetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I REPAIR
CHAPTER 1 Ideologies of Repair in Erectile Dysfunction Treatment and “Men’s Health” Medicine Emily Wentzell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
CHAPTER 2 Repairing Sexual Aging: Italian GPs’ Discourses in the Viagra Era Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
CHAPTER 3 Repairing the Body and Improving the Nation: Corrective Plastic Surgeries for Protruding Ears in Brazil Marcelle Schimitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
CHAPTER 4 The Itinerant Beauty Brigade: Repairing Social Fractures through the Apapacho Estético Eva Carpigo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
PART II RESHAPING
CHAPTER 5 Shaping the European Body: The Cosmetic Construction of Whiteness Chiara Pussetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
CHAPTER 6 Reshaping Masculinities and the Beauty Industry in Colombia Alejandro Arango-Londoño Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
CHAPTER 7 Reshaping and Hacking Gendered Bodies: Gay Bears and Pro-Independence Catalan Militants Begonya Enguix Grau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
CHAPTER 8 Remaking (Post-)Human Bodies in the Anthropocene through Bioart Practices Christine Beaudoin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
PART III REPLACEMENT
CHAPTER 9 Can You See the Real Me? Cyborg, Supercrip, or Simply a Lover of Sport? P. David Howe and Carla Filomena Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
CHAPTER 10 Unfixing Blindness: Retinal Implants and Negotiations of Ability in Postsocialist Russia Svetlana Borodina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
CHAPTER 11 Learning through Apps: The Replacement of Offline Cis-Female Bodies with Digital Pregnancies and Menstruations Daniela Tonelli Manica, Marina Fisher Nucci and Gabriela Cabral Paletta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
CHAPTER 12 Remaking Desires and Femininities: Testosterone “Replacement” for Treating Women’s Sexuality in Brazil Fabíola Rohden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
AFTERWORD Beyond the Flesh Lenore Manderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268