Doing Gender – Doing Human

Authors

  • Natascha Compes Open University Hagen

Keywords:

Gender, Doing Gender, Androids, Science Fiction, TV-series

Abstract

The Swedish series Real Humans raises questions about the essence of humanity in a narration on androids with human-like artificial intelligence and emotions, who live in human society in a nearby future. Besides several other topics gender and gender relations are addressed. In order to successfully pass as human, a certain strategy of gender-performance is made use of. In the article it is investigated how this is conducted in the filmic representation.

Author Biography

  • Natascha Compes, Open University Hagen

    M.A., research assistant in the Department of Education and Difference at the FernUniversität in Hagen, she holds a Master's degree in Literature and Cultural Studies in the subjects English Studies including American Studies and Philosophy.

Titel 2018

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Published

2018-05-17

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2018): dolls/puppets in threat scenarios

Section

Focus

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Natascha Compes

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Doing Gender – Doing Human. just a bit of doll - a multidisciplinary journal for human-doll discourses, v. 1, n. 1, p. 92–101, 17 May2018.