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OverviewIn Infrahumanisms Megan H. Glick 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-Glick 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, Glick shows how the consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of long-held truths about biological meaning and difference. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Megan H. GlickPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9781478001164ISBN 10: 147800116 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 28 December 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"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"ReviewsInfrahumanisms is an ambitious book that shows the applicability of the term 'infrahuman' to a wide range of historical contexts and highlights how these relate to constructions of sexual, racial, gender, and bodily difference.... Offering analyses of an impressive range of twentieth-century scientific and cultural phenomena, from the emergence of primatology to extraterrestrial sightings in the postwar era and contemporary xenotransplantation, Infrahumanisms will be of interest to scholars working in the history of sexuality, critical race studies, animal studies, medical humanities, and science studies. -- Ina Linge * Journal of the History of Sexuality * It is a rare work that can bring together topics as disparate as childhood, nonhuman primates, aliens, xenotransplantation, and AIDS.... Full of surprising connections and intriguing insights, Infrahumanisms is a rich and stimulating contribution to the literature on eugenics, biomedicalization, and biopolitics in general. -- Rose Trappes * Metascience * The scholarly discussions in both human-animal studies and posthuman theory have been insufficiently attentive to race and colonial histories, and Glick's work is a welcome addition to these conversations, showing gaps in previous ways of thinking about the ideological functions of the animal/human boundary. -- Sherryl Vint * Catalyst * Infrahumanisms shows how beliefs about species categories, species relations, and species hierarchies form the ground from which ideas about biological essentialism, humane behavior, and dehumanization often grow.... Glick's methods and style in Infrahumanisms are bold and refreshing.... Readers will find this book to be generous, opening up lines of inquiry that may be taken up elsewhere. -- Rebecah Pulsifer * Women's Studies Quarterly * Glick presents a new focus on the history of dehumanization and devaluation, of cultural and political exclusion based on differential conditions of embodiment including race, gender, sexuality, disability, and disease status.... A dense yet rewarding read. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. -- J. A. Kegley * Choice * Glick presents a new focus on the history of dehumanization and devaluation, of cultural and political exclusion based on differential conditions of embodiment including race, gender, sexuality, disability, and disease status.... A dense yet rewarding read. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. -- J. A. Kegley * Choice * Infrahumanisms shows how beliefs about species categories, species relations, and species hierarchies form the ground from which ideas about biological essentialism, humane behavior, and dehumanization often grow.... Glick's methods and style in Infrahumanisms are bold and refreshing.... Readers will find this book to be generous, opening up lines of inquiry that may be taken up elsewhere. -- Rebecah Pulsifer * Women's Studies Quarterly * The scholarly discussions in both human-animal studies and posthuman theory have been insufficiently attentive to race and colonial histories, and Glick's work is a welcome addition to these conversations, showing gaps in previous ways of thinking about the ideological functions of the animal/human boundary. -- Sherryl Vint * Catalyst * It is a rare work that can bring together topics as disparate as childhood, nonhuman primates, aliens, xenotransplantation, and AIDS.... Full of surprising connections and intriguing insights, Infrahumanisms is a rich and stimulating contribution to the literature on eugenics, biomedicalization, and biopolitics in general. -- Rose Trappes * Metascience * Infrahumanisms is an ambitious book that shows the applicability of the term 'infrahuman' to a wide range of historical contexts and highlights how these relate to constructions of sexual, racial, gender, and bodily difference.... Offering analyses of an impressive range of twentieth-century scientific and cultural phenomena, from the emergence of primatology to extraterrestrial sightings in the postwar era and contemporary xenotransplantation, Infrahumanisms will be of interest to scholars working in the history of sexuality, critical race studies, animal studies, medical humanities, and science studies. -- Ina Linge * Journal of the History of Sexuality * Author InformationMegan H. Glick is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University. 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