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Автор: Heather Hundley
Издательство: Ingram
Серия: Cultural Media Studies
Жанр произведения: Культурология
Год издания: 0
isbn: 9781433163043
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rel="nofollow" href="#litres_trial_promo">Chapter 6, “Transcending Boundaries: Posthumanism and Transhumanism in Caprica and Deus Ex,” continues our examination of cyborgs and women connected with the cognisphere. Women who have chosen transhuman augmentation in the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica and the Deus Ex franchise of video games complicate several Enlightenment binaries: mind/body, self/other, us/them, and human/machine. Altogether, the dangerous dames challenge false dichotomies in ways that reveal the promise of the embodied cyborg and the distributed cognisphere for feminisms in posthuman contexts.

      The conclusion, “Envisioning Feminist Futures,” serves as an epilogue to our exploration. It features a succinct summary, connects themes across chapters, discusses the ramifications and implications of our analysis, and delineates our visions for the future. Throughout, we endeavor to illuminate the complex environments these dangerous dames navigate and the important rhetorical functions they perform across media. We identify equipment for living they provide, and we document the constraints they face. By doing so, we hope to advance the ongoing conversation about postfeminist media and perform some of the ongoing feminist work needed to actualize a more just and equitable future.

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      Notes

       1. This change affected primarily white women; most women of color and low-income women had been working outside the home long before this time.

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