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1 online resource (165 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Suspending Gender and Becoming-Gynoid in Science Fiction -- Binaries, Uncertainties, Selfhood -- Biopower and Bare Life: New Conceptualisations of Gender -- The Battle of Sexes -- On Cyborgs and Gynoids -- Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Gynoid -- On Gynoids, Interfaces and the Disruptive Nature of Play -- 1 Woman or Womankind? Signatures, Suspension and Bare Life in Feminism and Science Fiction -- The Suspended Woman -- Women and/as Bare Life |
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On Paradigms, Signatures and Handmaids -- Oikonomia in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy -- 2 Removing/Reprogramming the Masculine -- The Homo Sacer in the Feminist Dis/Utopia -- Removing the Masculine -- Reprogramming the Masculine -- Female Worlds and Female Men -- Symbolic Mothers: Copies without Origins -- 3 "You can alter our physiology, but you cannot change our nature": The Girl in the Machine -- Female Borg versus the Posthuman Collective -- The Female Cyborg as Assemblage -- Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Gynoid -- 4 Female Machines and Female Flesh -- Women and/as Automata |
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Gynoids: Some Assembly Required -- Authenticity and Performance in C.L. Moore's "No Woman Born" -- 5 "Formally a correct response. But simulated" -- Scoring Women on the Voight-Kampff Scale -- 6 Profane Simulations -- Home and Ruin in the Fallout Games -- Use and Play, Sacred and Profane -- The Value of Junk -- Hiding from the Fallout: Oikonomia, the Home and the Vault -- 7 Becoming and Avatar -- Playing as Cyborgs among Gynoids in the Deus Ex Games -- Deus Ex Machina: Playing at the Threshold -- Conclusion: Virtual Wives and Autonomous Selves -- Towards a Politics of Becoming-Gynoid -- Bibliography |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Index |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000329667 |
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1000329666 |
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