网络女性的(退化)演变?

The (D)evolution of the Cyberwoman?

ORGANIZATION · 2008
被引 33
人大 A-ABS 3

中文导读

通过分析《复制娇妻》和《黑客帝国》等流行文化作品,探讨赛博格化是否真的能解放女性,发现刻板印象和强情节比知识分子的构想更受欢迎。

Abstract

In this paper, we examine Donna Haraway's idea of a liberating potential of cyborgization in the light of popular culture products related to organized work. We consider two different takes on this issue: women as technology and technology as women, and we start with the successive versions of Stepford Wives (the novel, the 1975 movie and the 2004 movie), and continue by tracing the evolution of the character of a cyberwoman, from William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) and Idoru (1996), to Trinity from the Matrix trilogy. We show that cyborgization does not automatically denote liberalization, and suggest that the much greater popularity of the Matrix films compared to the intellectual projects of William Gibson means that stereotypes and strong plots survive, finding ever new forms of expression. We end the paper by pointing out the relevance of popular culture models for work in contemporary homes and other workplaces.

文化研究性别研究媒体研究社会学流行文化