Remaking the Human

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).

“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

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Uncanny Aesthetics of Repairing, Reshaping, and Replacing Human BodiesAlvaro Jarrín and.Chiara PussettiPART I: REPAIRChapter 1. Ideologies of Repair in Erectile Dysfunction Treatment and “Men’s Health” MedicineEmily WentzellChapter 2. Repairing Sexual Ageing: Italian GPs’ Discourses in the Viagra EraRaffaella Ferrero CamolettoChapter 3. Repairing the Body and Improving the Nation: Corrective Plastic Surgeries for Protruding Ears in BrazilMarcelle SchimittChapter 4. The Itinerant Beauty Brigade: Repairing Social Fractures Through the “Apapacho Estético”Eva CarpigoPART II: RESHAPINGChapter 5. Shaping the European Body: The Cosmetic Construction of WhitenessChiara PussettiChapter 6. Reshaping Masculinities and the Beauty Industry in ColombiaAlejandro Arango-LondoñoChapter 7. Reshaping and Hacking Gendered Bodies: Gay Bears and Pro-Independence Catalan MilitantsBegonya Enguix GrauChapter 8. Remaking (Post)human Bodies in the Anthropocene: Bioart PracticesChristine BeaudoinPART III: REPLACEMENTChapter 9. Can You See the Real Me? Cyborg, Supercrip or Simply a Lover of SportP. David Howe and Carla Filomena SilvaChapter 10. Unfixing Blindness: Retinal Implants and Negotiations of Ability in Postsocialist RussiaSvetlana BorodinaChapter 11. Learning Through Apps: The Replacement of Offline Cis-female Bodies with Digital Pregnancies and MenstruationsDaniela Tonelli Manica, Marina Fisher Nucci and Gabriela Cabral PalettaChapter 12. Remaking Desires and Femininities: Testosterone “Replacement” for Treating Women’s Sexuality in BrazilFabíola RohdenAfterword: Beyond the FleshLenore MandersonIndex