Emerging Cyborg Identities: Gender, and Feminism in Foundryside through Gee and Haraway's Lenses

Clicks: 7
ID: 336709
2024
Free PDF
Article Quality & Performance Metrics
Overall Quality
Not rated
Combines reader engagement with the AI quality analysis. This article has not been analysed, so there is no overall score — reader engagement is measured and shown alongside.
AI Quality Assessment
Not analyzed
Readership in this journal
Emerging

Ranked #533 of 953 articles by views in Pakistan Social Sciences Review

Most read Least read

Bar heights use a square-root scale. Only the 120 most-read articles are drawn; the journal has 953 in total.

Mint this article as an NFT
Not yet minted

Create a permanent, verifiable on-chain record of this article on the Scimatic Network. The NFT is held in your Journament account, and you can withdraw it to your own wallet at any time.

5 SUSD one-off · no wallet required
Sign in to mint
Abstract
This paper aims to explore the gender identity of cyborg character Sancia in Robert Jackson Bennett’s novel Foundryside. Sancia represents the theoretical concept of emerging feminism as she is that part of a cyborg which can be considered as a new type of female figure. Through a close reading of Foundryside, this research examines Sancia’s changing identity. Using Gee’s (2014) discourse analysis approach, Sancia’s identity and activitiess are analysed in the selected passages of the text. This is followed by a discussion of how Sancia’s post-humanity breaks down and reconstitutes conventional feminine signs trough Harraway’s Lense. Findings of the study indicate that Sancia’s cyborg status erases the gender binary system since it fuses simplication/exteriorisation yet embraces an organic and mechanical. This emerging identity offers fresh perspective on how female cyborgs are constructed as self-steering, non-binary gendered characters in speculative fiction. Erasing the binary between man and machine, this research extends the framework of feminist posthumanism and opens up the scholarly discussion of gender identity in speculative fiction.
Reference Key
imported_1793231022_6ae288ae1a341 Use this key to autocite in the manuscript while using SciMatic Manuscript Manager or Thesis Manager
Authors Mian Khurram Shahzad Azam
Are you one of these authors? Claim your profile
Journal Pakistan Social Sciences Review
Year 2024
DOI
10.35484/pssr.2024(8-IV)23
URL
https://ojs.pssr.org.pk/journal/article/view/839
Keywords Keywords not found

Citations

No citations found. To add a citation, contact the admin at info@scimatic.org

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to comment on this article.