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The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction
Feminism and Female Machines
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Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze. By analysing representations of the female cyborg figure, the gynoid, in science fiction literature, television, film and videogames, the work acknowledges its normative and subversive properties while also calling for a new feminist politics of selfhood and autonomy implied by the posthuman qualities of the female machine.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Suspending Gender and Becoming-Gynoid in Science Fiction
- 1 Woman or Womankind? Signatures, Suspension and Bare Life in Feminism and Science Fiction
- 2 Removing/Reprogramming the Masculine – The Homo Sacer in the Feminist Dis/Utopia
- 3 “You can alter our physiology, but you cannot change our nature”: The Girl in the Machine
- 4 Female Machines and Female Flesh – Women and/as Automata
- 5 “Formally a correct response. But simulated” – Scoring Women on the Voight-Kampff Scale
- 6 Profane Simulations – Home and Ruin in the Fallout Games
- 7 Becoming and Avatar – Playing as Cyborgs among Gynoids in the Deus Ex Games
- Conclusion: Virtual Wives and Autonomous Selves – Towards a Politics of Becoming-Gynoid
- Bibliography
- Index