The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction: Feminism and Female Machines by Cox-Palmer-White, Emily

The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction: Feminism and Female Machines (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367416218)

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The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction: Feminism and Female Machines by Cox-Palmer-White, Emily

The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction: Feminism and Female Machines

$140.00
The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction: Feminism and Female Machines by Cox-Palmer-White, Emily

The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction: Feminism and Female Machines

$140.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Emily Cox-Palmer-White
ISBN-10: 0367416212
ISBN-13: 9780367416218
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2021
Pages: 154
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10d
By Emily Cox-Palmer-White
By Emily Cox-Palmer-White
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Emily Cox-Palmer-White is a researcher specialising in gender theory, science fiction and philosophy. Her research is concerned with developing new avenues in feminist philosophy using the work of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze. Her work also explores the relationship between gender theory, posthumanism and female robots in science fiction and real-world technology. For her paper "Denuding the Gynoid: The Female Robot as Bare Life in Alex Garland's Ex Machina," she was awarded the Peter Nicholls Essay Prize by the Science Fiction Foundation and has also received the Support a New Scholar Award from the Science Fiction Research Association. She recently contributed a chapter to the collection Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy published by Open Court.

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