VII. The Fembot and Humanity’s Future: Conclusion American feminist and activist Susan Brownmiller once said that “Women are all female impersonators to some degree” (“Feminization”). Judith Butler would certainly agree with this statement. Butler, when read through a feminist point of view, argues that the socially acceptable persona of femininity is completely constructed for theContinue reading “Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 7 of 7)”
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Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 6.2 of 7)
VI. Phyllis, Ellery, and Landon: The Transgression/Failure of the Fembot However, in Landon’s reading of Adventures of the Artificial Woman, the critic believes the subversion comes not from Phyllis’ status as a machine performing femininity, or even as a machine developing its own consciousness, but from her rejection of the male authority of her maker.Continue reading “Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 6.2 of 7)”
Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 6.1 of 7)
VI. Phyllis, Ellery, and Landon: The Transgression/Failure of the Fembot This trope of newly created ‘intelligent’ machines exposing human failings is exercised quite starkly in a novel written by the prolific science fiction author Thomas Berger, titled Adventures of the Artificial Woman. In this work, as in the Battlestar Galactica example above, the Fembot hereContinue reading “Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 6.1 of 7)”
A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 1 of 7)
I. The Fembot: An Introduction “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people”, explains theorists Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler (Mulvaney). Kramarae and Treichler are two of many theorists interested in the figure of femininity in common cultural practices. The field of feminist theory and critique has existed for decades and shows no signsContinue reading “A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 1 of 7)”
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