Eve as Cyborg. Issue 2 (3rd March 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Eve as Cyborg. Issue 2 (3rd March 2021)
- Main Title:
- Eve as Cyborg
- Authors:
- Conway, Colleen M.
- Abstract:
- Abstract : The essay argues that the figure of the female cyborg introduced by Donna Haraway has yet to live up to its post-gender emancipatory promise. Both Haraway and Jack Halberstam contrast the female cyborg with the biblical Eve and her mythic origins in the garden of Eden. I argue that the figure of Eve is actually an ancient precursor to the female cyborg. Even more than the Greek myth of Pygmalion, the Eden myth shares common elements with later stories of man-made women. Like them, Eve was made to satisfy male desire, but then followed her own desires. Like later stories of female cyborgs, the representation of Eve reflects both male desire and male fear. After analyzing both Ovid's Pygmalion and Genesis 2-3, I trace common elements through the nineteenth century science fiction novel L'Eve future and the twenty-first century film Ex Machina. Like Eve, the female cyborgs in these works are built in a garden and their "emancipation" occurs only within the confines of androcentric heteronormative gender patterns.
- Is Part Of:
- Postscripts. Volume 11:Issue 2(2020)
- Journal:
- Postscripts
- Issue:
- Volume 11:Issue 2(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 11, Issue 2 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0011-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 18250
- Page End:
- 18250
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03-03
- Subjects:
- Religious literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Sacred books -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Religion and society -- Periodicals
201.705 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/POST ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1558/post.18250 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1743-887X
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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