Denisa Butnaru is Deputy Professor of General and Cultural Sociology in the Department of History, Sociology, Empirical Educational Research and Sport Science, University of Konstanz, Germany. Her areas of research are socioanthropology of the body and technology, contemporary developments in phenomenology of the body, and qualitative methodology in the social sciences.

• 1. Introduction: From science fictions to science facts Part I. Technological objects facing embodied subjects 2. Among bodies, exoskeletons and sites 3. Where exoskeletons aim to enter: Realms of human bodies Part II. Exoskeletons and their corporeal worlds 4. Impaired bodies 5. Able bodies Part III. What exoskeletons do to the body: Advancing corporealities6. New body shapes 7. Reinvesting corporeal capabilities: "Deviance" and "extension" redefined 8. Epilogue: Producing bodies while extending them

Denisa Butnaru is Deputy Professor of General and Cultural Sociology in the Department of History, Sociology, Empirical Educational Research and Sport Science, University of Konstanz, Germany. Her areas of research are socioanthropology of the body and technology, contemporary developments in phenomenology of the body, and qualitative methodology in the social sciences.

• 1. Introduction: From science fictions to science facts Part I. Technological objects facing embodied subjects 2. Among bodies, exoskeletons and sites 3. Where exoskeletons aim to enter: Realms of human bodies Part II. Exoskeletons and their corporeal worlds 4. Impaired bodies 5. Able bodies Part III. What exoskeletons do to the body: Advancing corporealities6. New body shapes 7. Reinvesting corporeal capabilities: "Deviance" and "extension" redefined 8. Epilogue: Producing bodies while extending them