1) The themes of these three texts seem to represent women's bodies and how they have been shown throughout history and even today. Balsamo points out that females were considered to be underdeveleoped males. Bridges themes were that of production, reproduction and imagination. Linke studies the social and symbolic violence in German culture in the post Nazism era.
2) Terms and phrases: die Mensch-Maschine - all relationships
replication/reproduction : simulacra/simulation
cyborg-combination of imagination and material reality
osmotic-magical
Haraway
biopower
3) Problems/comments
Development of the understanding of women over time was interesting in Balsamo
Use of Mensch only would exclude women
Debates over biotechnologies
"Body Worlds" - sounds disgusting yet interesting - 198 men shown to be healthy while 2 women shown diseased
What's symbolic of the description of the body?
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