The Cyborg Goddess: Social Myths of Women as Goddesses of Technologized Otherworlds.
This article proposes an analysis of the portrayal of relationships between nature and culture in figurations of feminity and masculinity in popular culture. Focusing on the cyborg figure deployed in the Star Trek film "First Contact," the author examines the ways in which the representation of the...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Studies Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 394 - 424 |
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Feminist Studies, Inc.
Summer2007
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