Technophilia: Technology, Representation, and the Feminine

'''Doane, Mary Ann. "Technophilia: Technology, Representation, and the Feminine."''' 1990. Anthologized in Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace. Jenny Wolmark, ed. Also The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader. London and New York: Routledge, in association with The Open University, 2000. Reviewed Veronica Hollinger, "Doing It for Ourselves: Two Feminist Cyber-Readers," our source here.

Examines presentations of women and "the feminine, specifically the maternal feminine, in a range of sf films, from Metropolis (1926) to Alien (1979) to Blade Runner (1982), demonstrating how these films displace their (masculinist) anxieties about technology onto the maternal body" (Hollinger p. 428).

RDE, completing, 9June19