Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women

Balsamo, Anne. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996.

Cited in "Refiguring the Radical Cyborg in Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell".

From the Duke U Press on-line blurb: "This book takes the process of 'reading the body' into the fields at the forefront of culture—the vast spaces mapped by science and technology — to show that the body in high-tech is as gendered as ever. From female body building to virtual reality, from cosmetic surgery to cyberpunk, from reproductive medicine to public health policies to TV science programs, Anne Balsamo articulates the key issues concerning the status of the body for feminist cultural studies in a postmodern world."[1]

See for real-world background for literary and dramatic works and specifically for The Handmaid's Tale(1985)[2] and PUMPING IRON II: THE WOMEN (1985)[3][4].

RDE, completing, 4July19