CONTENTS Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction These Monstrous Times: From Bestiary to Posthumanist Pedagogy 1 Intermezzo Marxism and the Bestiary 17 1 Victor, The Wild Child: Humanist Pedagogy and the Anthropological Machine 41 2 The Reptoid Hypothesis: Exopedagogy and the UFOther 73 3 Faery Faiths: Altermodernity and the Divine Violence of Exopedagogy 101 Conclusion A Monstrous Love Affair: The Ethics of Exopedagogy 129 Notes 151 Bibliography 165 Index 179 From the inside flap: The Boarman This guy's no tame pig. Part philosophy of imagination, part political theory, and part pedagogical critique, this book is a twenty-first century bestiary-a catalog to navigate the monstrous world in which we live. Their cultural studies experiments both extend and challenge the critical theories of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Giorgio Agamben, Paulo Freire, and others concerned with questions of teaching and learning beyond the global cultural logic of capitalism. Through a unique combination of critical, posthumanist, and educational theories, the authors engage in a surreal journey into how social movements are renegotiating the boundaries of community through expressions of posthuman love. In this meticulously researched, illuminating book, Bourke explores the legacy of more than two centuries, and looks forward into what the future might hold for humans, women, and animals.In Education Out of Bounds, Lewis and Kahn argue for a new critical theory of the monster as an imaginary "other" on the margins of the human and the animal.
Political disclosures and scientific advances have been re–locating the human–animal border at an alarming speed. If the Earnest Englishwoman had been capable of looking 100 years into the future, she might have wondered about the human status of chimeras, or the ethics of stem cell research.
In this fascinating account, Joanna Bourke addresses the profound question of what it means to be "human" rather than "animal." How are people excluded from political personhood? How does one become entitled to rights? The distinction between the two concepts is a blurred line, permanently under construction. The Earnest Englishwoman's heartfelt cry was for women to "become–animal" in order to gain the status that they were denied on the grounds that they were not part of "mankind."
In fact, their status was worse than that of animals: regulations prohibiting cruelty against dogs, horses, and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women. In 1872, a woman known only as "An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled "Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human.
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