ABSTRACT
This chapter considers three sets of analogs drawn from existing traditions: audacity, hybridity, and eroticism. It considers three powerful examples of feminist audacity: Princess Diana, Crone-dom and Womanist wisdom to see how audacious women have moved beyond external judgment to acceptance of themselves. The self-conscious honoring of feminine bodily processes was a means of rejecting monstrous and damaging assessments of female embodiment and reclaiming a sense of connection with nature, with each other, with oneself. Yvonne Volkart explains that whereas traditional feminism incorporates new technologies simply as tools for women's liberation, cyberfeminism actively promotes both the idea of becoming cyborgian and the pleasures involved in it. Cyberfeminism relies on a body that willingly recedes as one immerses oneself into an online environment, but for the broken-bodied woman, real physicality intrudes on digital identity. The four modes of hybridity as analogs for the broken-bodied woman: gender as performance, lesbianism, cyborgianism, and the monstrous.
