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Title Reload : rethinking women + cyberculture / edited by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002

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Description xiv, 581 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Introduction / Austin Booth and Mary Flanagan -- 2. Women's cyberfiction: an introduction / Austin Booth -- 3. (Learning about) Machine sex / Candas Jane Dorsey --4. Trouble and Her Friends (excerpt) / Melissa Scott --5. Striking cyborgs: reworking the "human" in Marge Piercy's He, She and It / Heather Hicks -- 6. The ship who sang / Anne McCaffrey -- 7. Entrada / Mary Rosenblum -- 8. A CyberRoom of one's own / Sarah Stein -- 9. The ethical dimension of cyberfeminism / Alison Adam -- 10. The Five Wives of Ibn Fadlan: women's collaborative fiction on Antonio Banderas web sites / Sharon Cumberland -- 11. Correspondence (excerpt) / Sue Thomas -- 12. Doing it digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the art of virtual female subjectivity / Jyanni Steffensen -- 13. Virtually visible: female cyberbodies and the medical imagination / Julie Doyle and Kate O'Riordan -- 14. No woman born / C.L. Moore -- 15. (Re)reading queerly: science fiction, feminism, and the defamiliarization of gender / Veronica Hollinger -- 16. After/Images of identity: gender, technology, and identity politics / Lisa Nakamura -- 17. Shooting up heroines / Bernadette Wegenstein -- 18. Girl erupted / Rajani Sudan -- 19. Cyborg feminism: the science fiction of Octavia E. Butler and Gloria Anzaldúa / Catherine S. Ramírez -- 20. Speech sounds / Octavia E. Butler -- 21. Virtual girl (excerpt) / Amy Thomson -- 22. Hyperbodies, hyperknowledge: women in games, women in cyberpunk, and strategies of resistance / Mary Flanagan -- 23. Proxies (excerpt) / Laura J. Mixon -- 24. "The postproduction of the human heart": desire, identification, and virtual embodiment in feminist narratives of cyberspace / Thomas Foster -- 25. A real girl / Shariann Lewitt -- 26. Assembling bodies in cyberspace: technologies, bodies and sexual difference / Dianne Currier -- 27. Shockingly tech-splicit: the performance politics or Orlan and other cyborgs / Theresa M. Senft -- 28. The girl who was plugged in / James Tiptree Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon)
Summary "Most writing on cyberculture is dominated by two almost mutually exclusive visions: the heroic image of the male outlaw hacker and the utopian myth of a gender-free cyberworld. Reload offers an alternative picture of cyberspace as a complex and contradictory place where there is oppression as well as liberation. It shows how cyberpunks̕ revolutionary claims conceal its ultimate conservatism on matters of class, gender, and race. The cyberfeminists writing here view cyberculture as a social experiment with an as-yet-unfulfilled potential to create new identities, relationships, and cultures. The book brings together women's cyberfiction--fiction that explores the relationship between people and virtual technologies--and feminist theoretical and critical investigations of gender and technoculture. From a variety of viewpoints, the writers consider the effects of rapid and profound technological change on culture, in particular both the revolutionary and reactionary effects of cyberculture on womens̕ lives. They also explore the feminist implications of the cyborg, a human-machine hybrid. The writers challenge the conceptual and institutional rifts between high and low culture, which are embedded in the texts and artifacts of cyberculture." -- BOOK JACKET.honics Is Ap
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Science fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Cyberpunk culture.
Science fiction -- Women authors.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Computers and women -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Computers and civilization -- Fiction.
American fiction -- Women authors.
Computers and women -- Fiction.
Computers and civilization.
Computers in literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Fiction.
History.
Fiction.
Author Flanagan, Mary, 1969-
Booth, Austin.
LC no. 2001056235
ISBN 0262062275 hardcover alkaline paper
0262561506 paperback alkaline paper
Other Titles Rethinking women + cyberculture