Reload

Rethinking Women + Cyberculture

By: Mary Flanagan

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Paperback | 3 May 2002

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2003 Susan Koppelman Award given by the Joint Women's Caucus of the Popular Culture/American Culture. 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 cyberpunk's 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 women's 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.

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"The focus in this book on research and creative work by women is desperately needed in the largely male-dominated world of science fiction and cyberpunk. Reload provides resources not easily accessible elsewhere." - N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of English, and Design and New Media, University of California, Los Angeles

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Acknowledgments
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Introduction	p. 1
Women's Cyberfiction: An Introduction	p. 25
(Learning About) Machine Sex (fiction) [1988]	p. 48
Trouble and Her Friends [excerpt] (fiction) [1994]	p. 64
Striking Cyborgs: Reworking the "Human" in Marge Piercy's He, She and It (criticism)	p. 85
The Ship Who Sang (fiction) [1961]	p. 107
Entrada (fiction) [1993]	p. 123
A CyberRoom of One's Own (criticism)	p. 148
The Ethical Dimension of Cyberfeminism (criticism)	p. 158
The Five Wives of Ibn Fadlan: Women's Collaborative Fiction on Antonio Banderas Web Sites (criticism)	p. 175
Correspondence [excerpt] (fiction) [1991]	p. 195
Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity (criticism)	p. 209
Virtually Visible: Female Cyberbodies and the Medical Imagination (criticism)	p. 239
No Woman Born (fiction) [1944]	p. 261
(Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the Defamiliarization of Gender (criticism)	p. 301
After/Images of Identity: Gender, Technology, and Identity Politics (criticism)	p. 321
Shooting up Heroines (criticism)	p. 332
Girl Erupted (criticism)	p. 355
Cyborg Feminism: The Science Fiction of Octavia E. Butler and Gloria Anzaldua (criticism)	p. 374
Speech Sounds (fiction) [1983]	p. 403
Virtual Girl [excerpt] (fiction) [1993]	p. 415
Hyperbodies, Hyperknowledge: Women in Games, Women in Cyberpunk, and Strategies of Resistance (criticism)	p. 425
Proxies [excerpt] (fiction) [1998]	p. 461
"The Postproduction of the Human Heart": Desire, Identification, and Virtual Embodiment in Feminist Narratives of Cyberspace (criticism)	p. 469
A Real Girl (fiction) [1998]	p. 505
Assembling Bodies in Cyberspace: Technologies, Bodies, and Sexual Difference (criticism)	p. 519
Shockingly Tech-splicit: The Performance Politics of Orlan and Other Cyborgs (criticism)	p. 539
The Girl Who Was Plugged In (fiction) [1973]	p. 546
Index	p. 578
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