And the Mirror Cracked

And the Mirror Cracked
Author: A. Smelik
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1998-05-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0333994701

And The Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the highly productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms, Anneke Smelik highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage and the excessive image. In a continuous mirror game between theory and cinema, this study explains how these cinematic techniques are used to represent female subjectivity positively and affirmatively. Among the films considered are A Question of Silence , Bagdad Cafe , Sweetie and The Virgin Machine .

Feminist Philosophy of Technology

Feminist Philosophy of Technology
Author: Janina Loh
Publisher: J.B. Metzler
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-01-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9783476049667

There has been little attention to feminism and gender issues in mainstream philosophy of technology and vice versa. Since the beginning of the so-called »second wave feminism« (in the middle of the 20th century), there has been a growing awareness of the urgency of a critical reflection of technology and science within feminist discourse. But feminist thinkers have not consistently interpreted technology and science as emancipative and liberating for the feminist movement. Because technological development is mostly embedded in social, political, and economic systems that are patriarchally hierarchized, many feminists criticized the structures of dominance, marginalization and oppression inherent in numerous technologies. Therefore, the question of defining and ascribing responsibility in technics and science is essential for this anthology – regarding for instance the technological transformation of labor, the life in the information society, and the relationship between humans and machines.

The Sex Doll

The Sex Doll
Author: Anthony Ferguson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786456620

This scholarly study of the centuries-long history of fornicatory dolls examines the enduring obsession with creating an idealized, silent female sexual object and the manifestations of this desire through the ages in mythology, literature, art, philosophy and science. This particular sexual impulse has been expressed in a great variety of forms such as statues, mannequins, sex dolls, and gynoids (robots). In particular this study focuses on the evolution of the sex doll through its original incarnation as a sack cloth effigy, through the marketing of inflatable dolls, to the current elaborate cyber-technology figures, in an attempt to discover the hidden drives and desires which fuel this ongoing fantasy of creating a perfect, powerless, silent partner.

Blue Label

Blue Label
Author: Eduardo J. Sánchez Rugeles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2018
Genre: Automobile travel
ISBN: 9781885983640

This whiskey-fueled road trip gives us "a rich, raw speech map ... of a generation whose destiny lies elsewhere."--Alberto Barrera Tyszka, from the Afterword.

Start Your Own Religion

Start Your Own Religion
Author: Timothy Leary
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781579511012

START YOUR OWN RELIGION embodies the Timothy Leary's core attraction—expansive religious (personal) freedom. Become the highest version of yourself! The purpose of life is religious discovery. return to the temple of God—your ow body. Get of out your mind and get high. Religious living is conscious here-and-now aliveness. He urges readers to drop out, turn on tune in. Drop out and detach from external social drams. Turn on with a sacrament that returns you on to your body. Tune in and be reborn. Leary's message thrilled the youth of the 1960s and it is still appealing today.