Technoscience vs. Teknon-Science: The Tragedy Of The Female Scientist In Cynthia Ozick’s Puttermesser And Xanthippe

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Christina Dokou
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This paper aims to explore from a technofeminist standpoint this failure to enunciate a ‘feminine’ technoscientific praxis in the Puttermesser and Xanthippe episode of Cynthia Ozick’s 1997 ‘serial’ novel The Puttermesser Papers. In particular, there is a tragic failure to integrate procreative ethos and creative technoscience: when the latter is placed in the service of the former, the curse of Frankenstein rears its ugly head, and catastrophe ensues. The female scientist, a Jewish polymath like Ruth Puttermesser who creates a female golem to save New York, in releasing procreativity from the necessity of heterosexual reproduction, unwittingly unleashes a plague of ‘hyperfemininity’ that threatens to destroy culture. Thus, the break from the biological restraints of procreation and the establishment of a utopian femarche (female rule) are deconstructed, parodied, and retrospectively opposed as destructive, while the figure of the female savant / scientist emerges as a tragic one, torn between the need to nurture, and the catastrophic consequences of that need.
技术科学与技术科学:辛西娅·奥兹克的《推特messer和Xanthippe》中女科学家的悲剧
本文旨在从技术女权主义的角度探讨辛西娅·奥西克1997年的“系列”小说《Puttermesser Papers》中,在Puttermesser和Xanthippe这一集中未能阐明“女性化”的技术科学实践。特别是,将生育精神和创造性技术科学结合在一起是一种悲剧性的失败:当后者被置于前者的服务中时,弗兰肯斯坦的诅咒就会丑陋地出现,灾难随之而来。这位女科学家,一个像露丝·普特梅瑟(Ruth Puttermesser)一样的犹太博学者,创造了一个女性傀儡来拯救纽约,在将生殖能力从异性恋生殖的必要性中解放出来的同时,无意中释放了一场威胁到文化毁灭的“超级女性化”瘟疫。因此,打破生育的生物限制和建立乌托邦式的女性(女性统治)被解构、模仿和回顾性地反对为破坏性的,而女性学者/科学家的形象则作为一个悲剧人物出现,在养育的需要和这种需要的灾难性后果之间挣扎。
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