As ecocriticism develops in scope and in influence, it is spreading beyond its original home
in literary studies and colonizing new niches in related fields. Among these is film criticism …

How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface
with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are …

In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with
findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging …

The idea of children's agency is central to the growing field of childhood studies. In this book
David Oswell argues for new understandings of children's agency. He traces the …

This article explores contemporary biopolitics in the light of Michel Foucault's oft quoted
suggestion that contemporary politics callslife itself'into question. It suggests that recent …

Explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity In the mid-nineteenth-century
United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood …

In this selective review of the literature on medical sociology's engagement with technology,
we outline the concurrent developments of the American Sociological Association section on …

Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast
range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do …

Although it is usually assumed that in Michel Foucault's work biopolitics is a politics which
has life for its object, a closer analysis of the courses he gave at the Collège de France on …

Now that we have sequenced the human genome, what does it mean? In The Postgenomic
Condition, Jenny Reardon critically examines the decade after the Human Genome Project …