“Docile Bodies”: Femininity and the Cyborg Body in Marissa Meyer’s “Cinder” (Jessica D. and Mel R.)

In Sandra Barkty’s article “Foucault, Femininity, and Modernization of Patriarchal Power”, she takes Foucault’s idea of docile bodies that we studied in the last week, and performs a gendered analysis. She discusses Foucault’s idea of the panopticon, citing that “[t]he effect of this is ‘to induce in the inmate a state of consciousness and permanent …

Racialization of the Cyborg Body in “Marissa Meyer’s”Cinder (Mirlande D. and Karen P.)

  In Cinder, Marissa Meyer wrote Cinder’s character to inhabit a cyborg body. We argue that this has only resulted in her racialization. Coming away from the understanding of race as colour, we are analyzing racialization under a different lens. A lens that sees the outcomes of racialization constructing bodies as expendable and less than. Because of …

Talking Bodies: The Abject and Bodily Inscription in Marissa Meyer’s Cinder (by Julia V. and Sarah G.)

Initially published by Charles Perrault in 1697 (Britannica), “Cinderella” continues to evolve in Children’s Literature as a beloved tale of oppression, magic, and triumph. The influence of the classic fairy tale is seen throughout popular culture in numerous tropes, plot devices and metaphors. Marissa Meyer’s Young Adult dystopian novel, Cinder, utilizes the structure of “Cinderella” …