Alien Feminisms and Cinema's Posthuman Women.
In this essay, I ask how we can chart new feminist epistemologies around the figure of the posthuman woman. To explore how the posthuman female body is situated as a site of ontological and epistemological struggle around feminism, femininity, and subjectivity in contemporary screen culture, I exami...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 379 - 401 |
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University of Chicago Press
Winter2018
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