Index

                     Contents
Acknowledgments	                                                     vii
Illustration Credits	                                             ix
Editors and Contributors                                             x	
Austin Booth and Mary Flanagan, Introduction	                     1
2  Austin Booth, Women's Cyberfiction: An Introduction	             25
   Women Using Technology
3  Candas Jane Dorsey, (Learning About) Machine Sex (fiction) [1988] 48
4  Melissa Scott, Trouble and Her Friends [excerpt] (fiction) [1994] 64
5  Heather Hicks, Striking Cyborgs: Reworking the "Human" 
   in Marge Piercy's He, She and It (criticism)	                     85
6  Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang (fiction) [1961]                107
7  Mary Rosenblum, Entrada (fiction) [1993]	                     123
8  Sarah Stein, A CyberRoom of One's Own (criticism)	             148
9  Alison Adam, The Ethical Dimension of Cyberfeminism 
   (criticism)                                                       158
10 Sharon Cumberland, The Five Wives of Ibn Fadlan: Women's 
   Collaborative Fiction on Antonio Banderas Web Sites (criticism)   175
11 Sue Thomas, Correspondence [excerpt] (fiction) [1991]	     195
12 Jyanni Steffensen, Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and 
   the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity (criticism)	             209
13 Julie Doyle and Kate O'Riordan, Virtually Visible: Female 
   Cyberbodies and the Medical Imagination (criticism)	             239
14 C.L. Moore, No Woman Born (fiction) [1944]	                     261
15 Veronica Hollinger, (Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, 
   Feminism, and the Defamiliarization of Gender (criticism)	     301
16 Lisa Nakamura, After/Images of Identity: Gender, Technology, 
   and Identity Politics (criticism)	                             321
17 Bernadette Wegenstein, Shooting up Heroines (criticism)	     332
18 Rajani Sudan, Girl Erupted (criticism)	                     355
19 Catherine S.Ramìrez, Cyborg Feminism: The Science Fiction 
   of Octavia E. Butler and Gloria Anzaldua (criticism)              374
20 Octavia E. Butler, Speech Sounds (fiction) [1983]	             403
21 Amy Thomson, Virtual Girl [excerpt] (fiction) [1993]	             415
22 Mary Flanagan, Hyperbodies, Hyperknowledge: 
   Women in Games, Women in Cyberpunk, and 
   Strategies of Resistance (criticism)	                             425
Bodies                                                               456
23 Laura J.Mixon, Proxies [excerpt] (fiction) [1998]	             461
24 Thomas Foster, "The Postproduction of the Human Heart": 
   Desire, Identification, and Virtual Embodiment in Feminist 
   Narratives of Cyberspace (criticism)                              469
25 Shariann Lewitt, A Real Girl (fiction) [1998]	             505
26 Dianne Currier, Assembling Bodies in Cyberspace: 
   Technologies, Bodies, and Sexual Difference (criticism)	     519
27 Theresa M. Senft, Shockingly Tech-splicit: The Performance 
   Politics of Orlan and Other Cyborgs (criticism)	             539
28 James Tiptree Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon), The Girl Who Was 
   Plugged In (fiction) [1973]	                                     546
Index	                                                             578