Body Modification and the Media: Female Monstrosity

Jun 26
08:56

2015

Janet Davie Smith

Janet Davie Smith

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Modern technology is constantly developing at a fast pace. Technologies in addition to using the media recently have been contributing much to inversions within the meaning and definition of lady monstrosity inside the framework of the discrimination of sexual, gender, race, and class difference.

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Due to the fact that the women,Body Modification and the Media: Female Monstrosity Articles biological sciences, technology, cybernetics are considered to be conceptually interrelated. There exist a lot of heterogeneous and at the same time contradictory connections between the terms mother, monster and machine.

Thus, with the spreading of the body modification and surgery fashion, cyberpunk culture and fashion trends, cybernetic ideas and images of the future, the future of the female body is under the risk of being enrobed in plastic. Is that the kind of sexism or any other discrimination? I believe it is going to be quite a disputable issue since the fast development of modern technologies and science will not ask people whether they like it or not. It is basically conforming to the laws of nature, logical development and walkout on the new level of civilization upgrade, world of the future.

While dealing with the issues of post technologic world of future and the place of the femininity in it, it is possible to appeal to the works of perhaps the most illustrious and realistic creator of the cyberspace and boundless information world called the matrix, William Gibson. It was his creation that became the prototype of the modern vision of the modified woman-warrior – Molly. The heroine of the Sprawl series, Molly is considered to be a classical female of the cyberpunk genre. Having transplanted eyes-glasses with the lenses from Zeiss and the razor blades instead of her nails, she embodied the beauty and gracefulness of the cat woman and horrible futuristic doom of the modern women body at the same time. If speaking about cyborg female body, it is better to appeal to the story of the Ghost in the Shell. Japanese anime story about the woman cyborg is known to be the classic of the cyberpunk alongside the characters of the Canadian writer William Gibson. “Cyborgs are stock science fiction characters which are alternately labeled ‘androids,’ ‘replicants’ or ‘bionic.’ This definition is found with Balsamo. Whatever label they attract, cyborgs provide provocative images to consider in light of the questions asked regarding female monstrosity.

The world of the future is unpredictable and amazing. It contains the range of the issues concerning female monstrosity within the context of racial, gender, sexual, class discrimination, etc. that are to be encountered and dealt. It is a matter of politics, medicine, society culture and science ethics, as well. In addition, it is important to deal with the cosmetic surgery and new imaging technologies as one of the factors of female monstrosity transformations. It is possible to appeal again to the recent trends in the modern cosmetology. Technology and media are to change the future of the whole humanity, however, the controversy of its probable outcomes and aftermath remains unknown and anxious.