Awards
- Winner of 2003 Susan Koppelman Award given by the Joint Women's Caucus of the Popular Culture/American Culture. 2003
Overview
An anthology of feminist cyberfiction and theoretical and critical writings on gender and technoculture.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.
Full Product Details
Author: Mary Flanagan (Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities; Professor, Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College) ,
Austin Booth (Director of Collections and Research Services, State University of New York at Buffalo)
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Imprint: MIT Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.934kg
ISBN: 9780262561501
ISBN 10: 0262561506
Pages: 596
Publication Date: 03 May 2002
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
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
Author Information
Mary Flanagan is Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, Director of the Tiltfactor game research laboratory, and Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Critical Play- Radical Game Design (MIT Press). Austin Booth is Director of Collections and Research Services at State University of New York at Buffalo.
