Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In" Figurations, " Claudia Castaneda shows how this malleability is itself generated--how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to very powerful effect. Situated at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, cultural, and science and technology studies, this book provides a remarkable map of the child's meaning and movement across transnational circuits of...

Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In" Figurations, " Claudia Castaneda shows how this malleability is itself generated--how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to very powerful effect. Situated at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, cultural, and science and technology studies, this book provides a remarkable map of the child's meaning and movement across transnational circuits of...