Question: How does the introduction of machine and technology into human society affect gendering in the imagined future?
Texts:
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate and Tricia Rose
Thesis: Gendering of technology, as either feminine or masculine, creates divisions while technology that remains neutered is used to create a new categorization, in which race or sex is less divisive.
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