Böcker av Rebecca Gibson

Slow North East Scotland travel guide. Tourist information and holiday tips including castles, Pictish stone circles and other heritage attractions, walking, wildlife, accommodation, local food. Thorough coverage features Cairngorms, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Caledonian pinewoods, Balmoral royal estate, mountains, lochs, whisky distilleries, festivals

Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation.

This book examines how science fiction's portrayal of humanity's desire for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires. In creating a new species of potential companions, science fiction highlights what we already want and how our desires dictate-and are in return recreated- by what is written.