Technologies of the Gendered Body
Subtitle: Reading Cyborg Women
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780822316862
Subjects: Feminism; Sexual behaviour; Sex Roles (Sociological Aspects); Sociology; Social aspects; Feminism & Feminist Theory; American Studies; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; Body, Human; Cybernetics; Feminist theory; Gender identity
First sentence: From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, published in 1818, to Maria, the robot in Metropolis (Lang, 1927), to Frankenhooker (a film released on video in 1989), the possibilities of human hybrids have fired our cultural imagination as the Western world has developed through the industrial revolution into the age of high technology (figure 4).