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April 2002
7 x 9, 595 pp., 14 illus.
$80.00/£59.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-06227-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-06227-5

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Reload
Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
Edited by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth

Table of Contents

Introduction, Austin Booth and Mary Flanagan
Women's Cyberfiction: An Introduction, Austin Booth


WOMEN USING TECHNOLOGY
(Learning About) Machine Sex, Candas Jane Dorsey (fiction)
Trouble and Her Friends, Melissa Scott (fiction excerpt)
Striking Cyborgs: Reworking the "Human" in Marge Piercy's He, She, and It, Heather Hicks (criticism) The Ship Who Sang, Anne McCaffrey (fiction)
Entrada, Mary Rosenblum (fiction)
A CyberRoom of One's Own, Sarah Stein (criticism)
The Ethical Dimension of Cyberfeminism, Alison Adam (criticism)
The Five Wives of Ibn Fadlan: Women's Collaborative Fiction on Antonio Banderas Web Sites, Sharon Cumberland (criticism)
Correspondence, Sue Thomas (fiction excerpt)
Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity, Jyanni Steffensen (criticism)


THE VISUAL/VISIBLE/VIRTUAL SUBJECT
Virtually Visible: Female Cyberbodies and the Medical Imagination, Julie Doyle and Kate O'Riordan (criticism)
No Woman Born, C. L. Moore (fiction)
(Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the Defamiliarization of Gender, Veronica Hollinger (criticism)
After/Images of Identity: Gender, Technology, and Identity Politics, Lisa Nakamura (criticism)
Shooting Up Heroines, Bernadette Wegenstein (criticism)
Girl Erupted, Rajani Sudan (criticism)
Cyborg Feminism: The Science Fiction of Octavia E. Butler and Gloria Anzaldua, Catherine Ramirez Speech Sounds, Octavia Butler (fiction)
Virtual Girl, Amy Thompson (fiction excerpt)
Hyperbodies, Hyperknowledge: Women in Games, Women in Cyberpunk, and Strategies of Resistance, Mary Flanagan (criticism)


BODIES
Proxies, Laura J. Mixon (fiction excerpt)
"The Postproduction of the Human Heart": Desire, Identification, and Virtual Embodiment in Feminist Narratives of Cyberspace, Thomas Foster (criticism)
A Real Girl, Shariann Lewitt (fiction)
Assembling Bodies in Cyberspace: Technologies, Bodies, and Sexual Difference, Dianne Currier (criticism)
Shockingly Tech-splicit: The Performance Politics of Orlan and Other Cyborgs, Theresa M. Senft (criticism)
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In," James Tiptree Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon) (fiction)

 
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