TY  - BOOK
AU  - Susanna Paasonen
PY  - 2005
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Figures of Fantasy
T2  - Internet, Women and Cyberdiscourse
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100360
N2  - 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, making visible its historicity, limitations, and implications. Figures of Fantasy offers an innovative theoretical approach to Internet research, and provides a highly original, systematic critique of the canonical works in the field.
KW  - Feminist theory, Internet, Frau, Popular culture, Internet research
LA  - English
ER  -