ABSTRACT
In light of the recent resurgence of cyberpunk, this piece examines how print-based feminist cyberpunk from the 1990s to the present remakes and depicts cyberpunk fashion and styles in ways that subvert the male gaze and the accompanying heteronormativity and objectification of feminized bodies. Using William Gibson’s Neuromancer as a primary point of contrast, the following analysis draws on close readings of Marge Piercy’s He, She, and It, Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber, Malka Older’s Infomocracy, and Ren Warom’s Escapology . Ultimately, these texts invoke the varying ideals of feminist fashion and dress reform to imagine futures where women and other marginalized characters come into their own social, political, and sexual power by literally redesigning and even more significantly resignifying fashion choices to better fit the spaces their protagonists live in.
