The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body
investigates the concept of body shame and explores its significance when considering …

This report outlines four of the weightiest challenges to gender equality presented by recent
developments in artificial intelligence (AI). In tandem, it outlines four research proposals …

This essay examines the ways in which Winterson's The Gap of Time adapts The Winter's
Tale to represent the difficulties of attaining intimacy. Winterson's novel updates the play's …

With recent and emerging developments in technology, we are witnessing a process of
cultural and social redefinition where the foundations of how we understand the body, the …

Posthuman parenting is fast becoming a reality with the development of technologies such
as artificial wombs and childcare robots. Debates and concerns about these technologies …

Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender …

This paper reconsiders the critical promotion of science fiction in the Anthropocene. It
highlights the genre's technocentrism and ethnocentrism, and its historical alliance with …

This article argues that Jeanette Winterson enciphers The Stone Gods with allusions to
Rapa Nui's colonial history. Specifically, Winterson's speculative sections re-enact a forty …

This essay addresses its title question by analyzing sex robots, real and imagined, as both
representational objects and vital matter. Though frequently treated as perverse by popular …

The British writer Jeanette Winterson imagines a bleak apocalyptic future in her novel The
Stone Gods (2007). The narrator Billie Crusoe lives on the Planet Orbus, a dying planet in …