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The Traffic in Cyberanatomies: Sex/Gender/Sexualities in Local and Global Formations

LISA JEAN MOORE

College of Staten Island, City University of New York

ADELE E. CLARKE

University of California, San Francisco

Medical anatomy is one of the key sites of the scientific production, reproduction and maintenance of sex and gender. Our Human Anatomies Project explores the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of difference in genital anatomies, focusing especially on the clitoris. This article focuses on representations of human genitalia in the form of cyberanatomies - video, CD-ROM and internetbased renderings of human bodies. In cyberspace as elsewhere, the biomedical expert remains the proper and dominant mediator between humans and their own bodies, despite the democratization of knowledges supposedly possible through the Internet. Special attention is given to the specific sites of production and distribution of these different cyberanatomies. Through our review of the globalization of cyberanatomies, we have come to witness the very sedimentation of sex/gender/sexuality in new arenas of representations of human bodies. Western biomedical imperialism and globalization of a standardized (American) body are taken up as core theoretical concerns.

Key Words: anatomy • clitoris • feminism • representation • technoscience • visual culture

Body & Society, Vol. 7, No. 1, 57-96 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X01007001003
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