Essays about: "cyborg feminism"

Found 4 essays containing the words cyborg feminism.

1. 1. Cyborg Subject or Transformable Avatars? : A Study of Power, Body and Identity in Post-cyberfeminist Art

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Ida Mogren; [2023]
   Keywords : cyborg; avatar; cyberfeminism; post-cyber feminism; cyberfeminist art; post-cyberfeminist art; glitch; performativity; digital performativity; queer theory; gender studies; art history;

   Abstract : This essay examines the body in post-cyberfeminist art to study possible changes in how the body is perceived in the shift from cyberfeminist to post-cyberfeminist art. I have studied the body by examining power and identity in four cases of post-cyberfeminist art, using postmodern feminist theories and concepts such as gender, gender performativity, heterosexual matrix and intersectionality. READ MORE

3. 2. Mirror, Mirror : Embodying the sexed posthuman body of becoming in Sion Sono’s Antiporno (アンチポルノ, 2016) and Mika Ninagawa’s Helter Skelter (ヘルタースケルター, 2012)

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Zara Luna Hjelm; [2021]
   Keywords : internalized gaze of oppression; Sion Sono; Mika Ninagawa; Antiporno; Helter Skelter; Japanese cinema; film analysis; gender; plastic surgery; beauty standards; body commodification; self-objectification; Japan; becoming; cyborg feminism; the charmed circle; masculine domination; j-horror; pinku egia; ego guro nansensu; shojo manga; BDSM;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the embodiment of the sexed body and the struggle of fitting into the narrow frames of what a woman is supposed to behave and look like in Japanese cinema. Using the medium of film, I, therefore, seek to produce knowledge regarding the internalized gaze of the oppressor, and self-objectification, caused by the capitalist heteropatriarchy. READ MORE

4. 3. The Fantastic Adventures of No-body: Mechanisms of cyborg disembodiment in five texts by women authors

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : Meryl Trussler; [2014]
   Keywords : Catherynne M Valente; Anne McCaffrey; Ann Leckie; Laura J Mixon; James Tiptree Jr.; cyborgs; cyborg feminism; cyberfeminism; Donna Haraway; science fiction; embodiment; disembodiment; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Science fiction is a genre in which anything is possible. It therefore comprises the perfect litmus test of any given culture’s prevailing hopes and fears about the future. READ MORE

5. 4. Cyborg athletes : A European history of gender, technology and virtue in sports

   University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Michael Torsson; [2013]
   Keywords : cyborg; sport; gender; athlete; athletics; philosophy; feminism; cyborg; sport; idrott; filosofi; atlet; atletitism; idrottsfilosofi; feminism; genus; kön;

   Abstract : This essay takes its start in a discussion on gender, sports and cyborgs by Swedish philosopher Kutte Jönsson in his book Idrottsfilosofiska introduktioner. I argue that he is wrong in arguing for agnosticism as to what sport is. Instead I give an historic account of what sport is and what values is inherent in our modern conception of sport. READ MORE