Female Ageing and Technological Reproduction. Feminist Transhuman Embodiments in Jasper Fforde’s The Woman Who Died A Lot

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10481/97478
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Auteur
Fernández Santiago, Miriam
Editorial
Palgrave
Materia
Female cyborg
 
Female Ageing
 
Transhumanism
 
Disability
 
Science Fiction
 
Date
2022
Referencia bibliográfica
“Female Ageing and Technological Reproduction .Feminist Transhuman Embodiments in Jasper Fforde’s The Woman Who Died A Lot.” in Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sherryl Vint and Sümeyra Buran, Palgrave. 2022, 283-300.
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The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant PID2019-106855 GB-I00, and the Andalusian Regional Government under grant P20-000008 supported the writing of this work.
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The visual power of the female-cyborg metaphor has been sensationally exploited in science fiction by rendering transhuman pictures of the female body and mind that often perpetuate old patriarchal clichés. The transhuman cyborg-woman is thus embodied as an improved female young, heterosexual, white, hypersexualized, and disposable commodity. Jasper Fforde’s novel The Woman Who Died A Lot (2012) unfolds a self-critical approach to feminist discourse that presses on the issue of female ageing as it intersects with the transhumanist construction of female biological/technological sexual desire and reproductive potential by representing ageing women as disabled.
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