Summary of Balsamo Discussion

Group 1: pp. 5-6, from “Techno-Bodies are healthy, enhanced…” to “…docile creatures practice safe sex or self-destruct.”

Group 2: pp. 6-9, from “When the human body is fractured…” to “…gender remains a naturalized marker of human identity.”

Group 3: pp. 9-11, from “Despite the technological possibilities…” to “…as the stage for the enactment of gender.”

Group 4: pp. 11-12, from “This chapter begins…” to “…how the material female body is actually constructed by and within discourse.”

Group 5: pp. 20-21, from “Michel Foucault is not so much interested in the truth of the body…” to “…gender often functions for him as a natural given.”

Group 6: pp. 25-27, from “In keeping with Douglas’s line of analysis…” to “…how does one control a body that isn’t entirely knowable?”

Group 7: pp. 28-30, from “Panic Postmodernism and the Disappearing Body” to “…the very order of the system.” and pp. 31-32 quotation from Alice Jardine (“While proceeding from a ‘belief’…”)

Group 8: pp. 33 “Every cyborg image…” to “in the process, ultimately transformed.”