Figures of Fantasy : Internet, Women, and

Figures of Fantasy explores the popularization of the idea of the Internet as a "cyberspace" and considers the implications this has for discussions of gender and identity. The book analyzes the standard figures used to conceptualize and explain te

Acknowledgments

vii

I Figuring Out Cyberdiscourse

1

(10)

The Internet and Cyberdiscourse

2

(3)

Figures and Figurations of Women

5

(3)

Things to Do with Textualities

8

(3)

II Five Decades of Popular Cybernetics

11

(54)

Reprogramming the Subconscious with Psycho-Cybernetics

14

(5)

Cyborg: Control, Men, and Machines

19

(7)

Monsters, Bionic Creatures, and Boundaries of the Human

26

(9)

The Best Wives Are Artifacts: The Stepford Wives, Feminism, and Technology

35

(17)

Ideal Wives and Fembots

38

(8)

Women, Robots, Servants, and Other Things

46

(6)

New Media is Cybernetic

52

(13)

Cyberspace Fictions and Fantasies

58

(7)

III Media to Dwell In: Cyberspace, Home Pages, and Self-Representation

65

(56)

Media, Tourism, and Travelogue

70

(5)

Cyberspace, Wonderland, and Other Parallel Realities

75

(7)

Making Oneself a(t) Home: Building Personal Home Pages

82

(22)

Homes of Affinity and Private Ownership

88

(5)

The Powers of Amateurism

93

(5)

Home Page Celebrities and Cinematic Home Pages

98

(6)

On the Conditions of Play: Identities and Characters

104

(17)

Displays of Character

112

(3)

Imagination and Its Conditions

115

(3)

Move, Play, Repeat

118

(3)

IV Creating a Feminine Cyberspace: Services for the Gendered Other

121

(50)

The Nature of Difference: Gender and Origin Stories

122

(6)

The Pinks and the Blues: Women's Web Sites by Sanitary Brands

128

(8)

Understanding Women as Media Users

136

(6)

Repetition without Difference?

142

(3)

Guide Me to Love: Gender and Internet Romance

145

(26)

Romance, Repetition, and Compulsion

148

(6)

Journeys toward the Self and Others

154

(4)

You've Got M@il and Model Online Romance

158

(6)

Sexuality and Scripted Performances

164

(5)

Things Women Need, Things Women Want

169

(2)

V Thinking Through the Cybernetic Body: Cybernetics and Feminism

171

(60)

Weavers and Female Networkers

173

(5)

Cybernetics, Nature, and Technology

178

(4)

Feminist Techno-Utopias

182

(7)

Ferminization and the Feminine

189

(5)

(Im)possibilities of Feminist Agency

194

(6)

Cyberfeminism and the Problem with Difference

200

(7)

Bitches, Grrrls, and Other Self-Definitions

207

(24)

The Many Faces of On Linguistic Appropriation

212

(6)

"Us and Them": Suing the Waves of Feminism

218

(8)

Feminism' and "Ways Out"

226

(5)

VI Binary Code, Binary Gender...and Things Beyond

231

(12)

Something New, Something Borrowed

232

(6)

Figures of Critique

238

(5)

Notes

243

(22)

References

265

(30)

Index

295

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