LEADER 04000nam 2200745 450 001 9910458421003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-6964-0 010 $a1-4426-9758-X 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442697584 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054111 035 $a(OCoLC)707712833 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442506 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000485128 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12157422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485128 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594876 035 $a(PQKB)11421245 035 $a(CEL)435064 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226130 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672926 035 $a(DE-B1597)465212 035 $a(OCoLC)1013963040 035 $a(OCoLC)944176319 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442697584 035 $a(PPN)192623842 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672926 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258577 035 $a(OCoLC)958515047 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054111 100 $a20160926h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImpersonations $etroubling the person in law and culture /$fSheryl N. Hamilton 210 1$aToronto, Ontario ;$aBuffalo, New York ;$aLondon, England :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4426-1606-7 311 $a0-8020-9846-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1 Introduction: Troubling the Person -- $t2 Persona Ficta: The Corporation as Moral Person -- $t3 'Not a Sex Victory': Gendering the Person -- $t4 Invented Humans: Kinship and Property in Persons -- $t5 Machine Intelligence: Computers as Posthuman Persons -- $t6 Celebrity Personae: Authenticating the Person -- $t7 Conclusion: Impersonations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aPersonhood is considered at once a sign of legal-political status and of socio-cultural agency, synonymous with the rational individual, subject, or citizen. Yet, in an era of life-extending technologies, genetic engineering, corporate social responsibility, and smart technology, the definition of the person is neither benign nor uncontested. Boundaries that previously worked to secure our place in the social order are blurring as never before. What does it mean, then, to be a person in the twenty-first century?In Impersonations, Sheryl N. Hamilton uses five different kinds of persons - corporations, women, clones, computers, and celebrities - to discuss the instability of the concept of personhood and to examine some of the ways in which broader social anxieties are expressed in these case studies. She suggests that our investment in personhood is greater now than it has been for years, and that our ongoing struggle to define the term is evident in law and popular culture. Using a cultural studies of law approach, the author examines important issues such as whether the person is a gender-neutral concept based on individual rights, the relationship between personhood and the body, and whether persons can be property.Impersonations is a highly original study that brings together legal, philosophical, and cultural expressions of personhood to enliven current debates about our place in the world. 606 $aPhilosophical anthropology 606 $aPersons 606 $aPersons (Law) 606 $aCulture and law 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPhilosophical anthropology. 615 0$aPersons. 615 0$aPersons (Law) 615 0$aCulture and law. 676 $a128 700 $aHamilton$b Sheryl N.$f1965-$0981044 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458421003321 996 $aImpersonations$92238994 997 $aUNINA