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2. For feminist readings of and cyberpunk, see Balsamo, Anne, "Feminism for the Incurably Informed", South Atlantic Quarterly, 92:4, Fall 1993, 681-712. Cherniavsky, Eva, "(En)gendering Cyberspace in Neuromancer: Postmodern Subjectivity and Virtual Motherhood", Genders,, Number 18, Winter 1993, 32-47. Foster, Thomas, "Meat Puppets or Robopaths?: Cyberpunk and the Question of Embodiment", Genders , Number 18, Winter 1993, 11-31. Nixon, Nicola, "Cyberpunk: Preparing the Ground for Revolution or Keeping the Boys Satisfied?", Science Fiction Studies, Volume 19 (1992), 219-235.
3. Alan Richardson, "Romanticism and the Colonization of the Feminine,"in Anne Mellor, ed. Romanticism and Feminism, Bloomington, Indiana university Press, 1988.
4. Anne K. Mellor, Romanticism & Gender, New York, Routledge, 1993.
5. Some, most notably Samuel Delany in an interview entitled "Some RealMothers", try to trace these "strong"female characters like Molly back to the feminist science fiction of the 1970's. This move seems a well-intentioned attempt to relocate the overlooked infl uence of feminist science fiction on cyberpunk form as well as content, however, this connection overlooks the way these characters are so often disempowered as the narratives of cyberpunk progress in order to reinstate masculine control and power. This move certainly differs sharply from the female empowerment feminist science fiction generally tries to achieve.
6. Nixon, Nicola, "Cyberpunk: Preparing the Ground for Revolution or Keeping the Boys Satisfied?", Science Fiction Studies, Volume 19 (1992), 219-235, p.222.
7. Sponsler, p. 633
8. Steven Bruhm, Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. p.xvi.