Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Copyright Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction and Overview 1
5. Part 1: Technology, Embodiment and Cyberspace
6. Introduction 13
7. 1. ‘Technophilia: Technology, Representation, and the Feminine’ 20
8. 2. ‘The Pleasure of the Interface’ 34
9. 3. ‘Virtual Corporeality: A Feminist View’ 55
10. 4. ‘Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories about Virtual Cultures’ 69
11. 5. ‘The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics’ 99
12. 6. ‘Space, Time, and Bodies’ 119
13. Part 2: Cybersubjects: Cyborgs and Cyberpunks
14. Introduction 139
15. 7. ‘Reading Cyborgs Writing Feminism’ 145
16. 8. ‘The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman’ 157
17. 9. ‘Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism’ 174
18. 10. ‘Cyberpunk: Preparing the Ground for Revolution or Keeping the Boys Satisfied?’ 191
19. 11. ‘Meat Puppets or Robopaths? Cyberpunk and the Question of Embodiment’ 208
20. 12. ‘The Postmodern Romances of Feminist Science Fiction’ 230
21. Part 3: Cyborg Futures
22. Introduction 241
23. 13. ‘New Sciences: Cyborg Feminism and the Methodology of the Oppressed’ 247
24. 14. ‘Envisioning Cyborg Bodies: Notes from Current Research’ 264
25. 15. ‘From Virtual Cyborgs to Biological Time Bombs: Technocriticism and the Material Body’ 280
26. 16. ‘Birth of the Cyberqueer’ 295
27. 17. ‘The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others’ 314
28. Bibliography 367
29. Index 372