과학기술과 여성의 육체: 제임스 팁트리 2세의 「접속된 소녀」
Technoscience and Woman’s Body: James Tiptree Jr.’s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In”
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This paper examines the relation of technoscience and woman’s body in James Tiptree, Jr.‘s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” focusing on the status of women’s bodies in multinational capitalism and technologically dominated culture. Tiptree shows the interface between technoscience and woman’s body plays an increasingly important role in women’s construction of identity in the near future. She shows how technologies could emancipate marginalized women’s bodies through Philadelphia Burke’s rejection of her grotesque body and her desire to live a new life through Delphi’s cyborg body. However, Tiptree also explores how the use of technology supporting the patriarchal culture can bind women to their prescribed roles and images. Brainless female bodies are constructed by Global Transmission Corporation and they are remotely controlled by those who are willing to give up their own bodies. Burke is plugged in to the media circuit that promotes the ideal feminine beauty of Delphi. Burke and Delphi are evaluated through their bodies and the text offers a critical view on the advanced technology relating to women within capitalistic global market. It also shows how women are entrapped by the gender ideology which places a high value on idealized female body and performance of femininity. The Burke/Delphi body does not fulfill the feminist potentialities of cyborg, and it shows the failure of offering new ways of constructing identity for women. Tiptree contributed to the formation and development of feminist cyberpunk and cyborg theory through her exploration of gender relations, technoscience and woman’s body in the future capitalist society.
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This paper examines the relation of technoscience and woman’s body in James Tiptree, Jr.‘s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” focusing on the status of women’s bodies in multinational capitalism and technologically dominated culture. Tiptree shows the interface between technoscience and woman’s body plays an increasingly important role in women’s construction of identity in the near future. She shows how technologies could emancipate marginalized women’s bodies through Philadelphia Burke’s rejection of her grotesque body and her desire to live a new life through Delphi’s cyborg body. However, Tiptree also explores how the use of technology supporting the patriarchal culture can bind women to their prescribed roles and images. Brainless female bodies are constructed by Global Transmission Corporation and they are remotely controlled by those who are willing to give up their own bodies. Burke is plugged in to the media circuit that promotes the ideal feminine beauty of Delphi. Burke and Delphi are evaluated through their bodies and the text offers a critical view on the advanced technology relating to women within capitalistic global market. It also shows how women are entrapped by the gender ideology which places a high value on idealized female body and performance of femininity. The Burke/Delphi body does not fulfill the feminist potentialities of cyborg, and it shows the failure of offering new ways of constructing identity for women. Tiptree contributed to the formation and development of feminist cyberpunk and cyborg theory through her exploration of gender relations, technoscience and woman’s body in the future capitalist society.
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