Cybersexualities
Subtitle: a reader on feminist theory, cyborgs, and cyberspace
By: edited and with an introduction by Jenny Wolmark.
Contributors: Wolmark, Jenny.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Feminist theory.; Feminist literary criticism.; Computers and women.; Cyborgs.; Cyberspace.; Computers and civilization.; Computer sex.; Cyborgs.; Cyberspace.; Feminist theory.; Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Description: Cyberspace, the cyborg and cyberpunk have given feminists new imaginative possibilities for thinking about embodiment and identity in relation to technology. This is an anthology of key essays on these potent metaphors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-371) and index.
Table of contents: title: Technophilia: technology, representation, and the feminine / Mary Ann Doane; title: The pleasure of the interface / Claudia Springer; title: Virtual corporeality: a feminist view / Zoë Sofia; title: Will the real body please stand up? Boundary stories about virtual cultures / Allucquere Rosanne Stone; title: The future looms: weaving women and cybernetics / Sadie Plant; title: Space, time, and bodies / Elizabeth Grosz; title: Reading cyborgs writing feminism / Anne Balsamo; title: The life cycle of cyborgs: writing the posthuman / N. Katherine Hayles; title: Cybernetic deconstructions: cyberpunk and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger; title: Cyberpunk: preparing the ground for revolution or keeping the boys satisfied? / Nicola Nixon; title: Meat puppets or robopaths? Cyberpunk and the question of embodiment / Thomas Foster; title: The postmodern romances of feminist science fiction / Jenny Wolmark; title: New sciences: cyborg feminism and the methodology of the oppressed / Chela Sandoval; title: Envisioning cyborg bodies: notes from current research / Jennifer González; title: From virtual cyborgs to biological time bombs: technocriticism and the material body / Kathleen Woodward; title: Birth of the cyberqueer / Donald Morton; title: The promises of monsters: a regenerative politics for inappropriate/d others / Donna Haraway.