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
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