Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
$70.86
- Paperback
596 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2002
Summary
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. This text 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262561501 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262561506 |
| Author: | Mary Flanagan |
| Publisher: | Mit Press |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 596 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2002 |
| Weight: | 943g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 178mm x 228mm |
| Series: | Reload |
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Critics Review
“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
About The Author
Mary Flanagan
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.
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