SOURCE: “Gendering the Robot: Stanislaw Lem's ‘The Mask,’” in Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 19, Pt. 2, July, 1992, pp. 178–90.
In the following essay, Parker examines the construction of gender identity and femininity in “The Mask,” drawing attention to Lem's use of a robot to illustrate the process of social programming by which sexual difference, language, and power hierarchies are established.
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