III. Man vs. Nature: The Fembot Debate before Computer Technology While issues of femininity and the debate about machine intelligence are at the forefront of the Fembot ‘trope’, there is a bigger, more pervasive issue that this character addresses. Whether the story she inhabits is using her character to question the nature of femininity (isContinue reading “A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 3 of 7)”
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A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 2 of 7)
II. Techno-Politics and Gender Politics: Conflict in the Fembot The question then becomes how our attitudes towards technology inform our attitudes towards gender as seen in the figure of the Fembot in popular science fiction literature. The Fembot is a figure composed of equal parts machine and programmed femininity. In each narrative, the Fembot becomesContinue reading “A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 2 of 7)”