On this episode Dr. Rebecca Gibson discusses corsets, skeletons, robots, Blade Runner, and more, while at the same time linking these apparently unrelated topics together through her methodology. Among other questions, Dr. Gibson's work asks what we can learn about gender and agency by bringing bioarcheological research on the effects of corseting into conversation with women's own words about the practice.
Rebecca Gibson is an independent scholar, whose published works include “Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact” (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), “The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding” (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), and "Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females" (Lexington Books 2021). She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from American University, and when not writing or teaching can be found reading mystery novels amidst a pile of stuffed animals.
