Cyborg Feminism in Neuromancer and Ghost in the Shell
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2022-12-08
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This study analyzes how posthumanism impacts gender relations, focusing
specifically on the female cyborg within cyberpunk fiction.
Neuromancer (1984) written by William Gibson and Ghost in the Shell (1995) directed by
Mamoru Oshii will serve as the primary case studies for this research. Hereby, the temporal
and geographical difference is the motivation for the comparison of these two texts. This
study argues that the cyberpunk fiction of the Eighties presented a new way of looking at
gender by importing the concept of the convergence between the biological and the
mechanical. While at the same time staying true to its inherently masculine narrative. Hereby
the focus will lie specifically on feminist readings of the genre and the parallel that can be
drawn between the emerging figure of the female cyborg in the Eighties and a new thought
stream that arose simultaneously within postmodern feminism. Namely: Cyborg Feminism.
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