Digital Fissures: Bodies, Genders, Technologies

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From rethinking feminist archives, to inserting postpornography in academia, to approaching sex toys from a transpositive perspective, to dismantling the foundations of techno-capitalism, the areas of inquiry in this book are lenses through which to explore the relationships between genders, bodies and technologies. All the various chapters work to reimagine the body as a hybrid, malleable and subversive source of potentiality. These essays offer readers road maps for unimagined and uncharted social scapes: the relationship between bodies–technologies–genders means working within a space of monstrosity. Through this embodied discomfort the book questions existing techno-social norms, and imagines tranfeminist futures.

Contributors are: Carlotta Cossutta, Valentina Greco, Arianna Mainardi, Stefania Voli, Lucía Egaña Rojas, Ludovico Virtù, Angela Balzano, Obiezione Respinta, Elisa Virgili, Rachele Borghi, and Diego Marchante “Genderhacker”.
From rethinking feminist archives, to inserting postpornography in academia, to approaching sex toys from a transpositive perspective, to dismantling the foundations of techno-capitalism, the areas of inquiry in this book are lenses through which to explore the relationships between genders, bodi...

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Stefania Voli holds a Ph.D. in Citizenship, Rights and Gender Equality in Modern and Contemporary History (University of L’Orientale Naples), and a Ph.D. in Applied Sociology and Social Research Methodology (University of Milan–Bicocca). Publications include: "Young People Between Uncertainty and Agency. An Analysis of the Strategies of Transition to Adulthood in Italy"> (Italian Journal of Sociology and Education) and Modificazioni corporee e cittadinanza transgender. Il caso del Movimento Identità Transessuale di Bologna, (doctoral thesis).

Arianna Mainardi holds a Ph.D. in Information Society from the Università degli studi di Milano. Publications include: "Young People Between Uncertainty and Agency. An Analysis of the Strategies of Transition to Adulthood in Italy" (Italian Journal of Sociology and Education), "At the Roots of Media Cultures. Social Movements Producing Knowledge About Media as Discriminatory Workspaces" (Information Communication & Society), and "Sexuality and Power in Contemporary Italy: Subjectivities between Gender Norms, Agency and Social Transformation" (Modern Italy).

Valentina Greco has an MA in Gender Studies and a Ph.D. in Women’s History and Gender Identity. Publications include: L’ago dentro e fuori.’ Il nodo memoria/storia nel caso della deportazione (Genesis. Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche), Geography and the ICT: New Technolgies and Geographical Research (Bononia University Press), and In Italia abortire è ancora un diritto a metà (Internazionale).

Carlotta Cossutta is a postdoctoral researcher in Political Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont. Publications include: "Transfeminist politics and populist counterattacks in Italy" (European Journal of English Studies), "Maternal relations, feminism and surrogate motherhood in the Italian context (Modern Italy), and Linguistic Traps. Identity and Differences Through Institutions, Law, Politics and the Gender Binary (Routledge, 2018).
Stefania Voli holds a Ph.D. in Citizenship, Rights and Gender Equality in Modern and Contemporary History (University of L’Orientale Naples), and a Ph.D. in Applied Sociology and Social Research Methodology (University of Milan–Bicocca). Publications include: "Young People Between Uncertainty and...

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