Hello! I'm new here, but in answer to the following request/plea for
help... the Duke University issue of FLAME WARS ed. by Mark Dery, 92:4
Fall 1983 has a couple of good "readings from a feminist perspective (of
course there are many of these perspectives!) Try Anne Balsamo's piece
"Feminism for the Incurably Informed",and Claudia Springer's "Sex,
Memories, and Angry Women".... and of course, all of
Pat Cadigan's work (Synners in particular). The Donna Haraway essay, "A
Cyborg Manifest"in SIMIANS CYBORGS AND WOMEN, THE REINVENTION OF NATURE,
should be required pre-reading for anything on Cyborgs of course!
Hope this helps!!!
carol anna mcbride
writer/filmmaker
On Tue, 20 May 1997, David Silver wrote:
> I teach a course called "Cyberworlds" to unsophisticated students. It is
> essentially a course in cyberpunk fiction, Neuromancer, Do Androids Dream
> of Electronic Sheep, etc. I have decided, at my daughter's instigation, to
> introduce a feminist cyberpunk novel into the course and I have chosen
> Melissa Scott's, Trouble and her Friends. The problem is that I have no
> idea how to analyze it from a feminist perspective. My reading is that it
> is a typical Gibson type novel with the protagonists being female. I am
> sure there is considerable subtext that is eluding me. If someone would
> take the trouble to reply directly to me with some hints as to how to
> approach/discuss it, I would be extremely grateful, and so would my students.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> David Silver
>
> 189 McMorran Crescent
> Thornhill, Ontario
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>
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