Figures of Fantasy: Internet, Women and Cyberdiscourse

by Susanna Paasonen

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 technology and gender, and traces the ways in which these concepts have served to create the figure of the Internet as a cyberspace - a manner of thinking that has come to dominate Internet research internationally,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820476072
• ISBN13: 9780820476070
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 302 Pages