Format:
1 online resource (153 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781000329704
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1000329704
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1000329666
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9781000329681
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1000329682
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9780367691011
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0367691019
,
9781000329667
Content:
Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze. By analysing representations of the female cyborg figure, the gynoid, in science fiction literature, television, film and videogames, the work acknowledges its normative and subversive properties while also calling for a new feminist politics of selfhood and autonomy implied by the posthuman qualities of the female machine
Note:
〈P〉Introductio -- Suspending Gender and Becoming-Gynoid in Science Fiction; Chapter 1: Woman or Womankind? Signatures, Suspension and Bare Life in Feminism and Science Fiction; Chapter 2: Removing/Reprogramming the Masculine -- The 〈EM〉Homo Sacer〈/EM〉 in the Feminist Dis/Utopia; Chapter 3: "You can alter our physiology, but you cannot change our nature": The Girl in the Machine; Chapter 4: Female Machines and Female ; Chapter 6: Profane Simulations -- Home and Ruin in the 〈EM〉Fallout〈/EM〉 Games ; Chapter 7: Becoming and Avatar -- Playing as Cyborgs Among Gynoids in the 〈EM〉Deus Ex〈/EM〉 ; Conclusion: Virtual Wives and Autonomous Selves -- Towards a Politics of Becoming-Gynoid
Language:
English
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