From Barbie to Mortal Hand Job (Who needs a Faustian Joy Stick?)

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>From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games was

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Carolyn Merchant's distinguished text _The Death of Nature:
    Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution_ engaged in just
    such a critical investigation as it endeavored to reveal the
    historic connection between the domination of nature and women.
    Merchant explained that her volume sought "to examine the values
    associated with the images of women and nature as they relate to
    the formation of our modern world and their implications for our
    lives today" (p. xxi).  The "implications for our lives today"
    provided the moral grounding for this work in which Merchant
    advocated the need to "reexamine the formation of a world view
    and a science that, by reconceptualizing reality as a machine
    rather than a living organism, sanctioned the domination of both
    nature and women" (p.  xxi).  The core of the book, then, is a
    "broad synthesis" that examined the social and ecological
    changes wrought by the new images of nature associated with the
    Scientific Revolution.  The premodern, organic view of a
    feminine natural world gave way to a mechanistic cosmology that
    perceived the green world of nature as inert matter, a machine
    available to human manipulation.

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[W]hat is a lesbian? Most people probably feel pretty sure they
know--until they pause
to reflect on issues that have been raised in some recent writings. Must
a woman have
sex with another woman in order to be counted as a lesbian?
...[H]istorians debate
what should count as "having sex". Should shared bed, intimate touching,
holding     hands, kisses on the lips, and expressions of undying love,
devotion, and passion--the
characteristics of romantic friendships between women who were regarded
by one and
all as models of heterosexual womanhood in the nineteenth and earlier
twentieth
centuries--be sufficient evidence to conclude that these women had
sexual
relationships? (Harding, pp. 250-251)


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