The Gendered Cyborg

Zusatztext '...issues dealt with in a variety of contexts, and styles; from the poetic to the scientific by way of the intellectually rigorous and stopping off at the mildly surreal along the way. This makes the book very approachable for the target audience of Masters students, and also for undergraduates.' - Fin McMorran, University of Northumbria. Undoubtedly there is plenty of interest in this book on the role of science and technology in women's lives.' - Alexandra Murrell, The Feminist Library, 2001 Informationen zum Autor Klappentext "The Gendered Cyborg brings together material from a variety of disciplines that analyze the relationship between gender and technoscience, and the way that this relationship is represented through ideas, language and visual imagery. The book opens with key feminist articles from the history and philosophy of science. They look at the ways that modern scientific thinking has constructed oppositional dualities such as objectivity/subjectivity, human/machine, nature/science, and male/female, and how these have constrained who can engage in science/technology and how they have limited our ideas of the possibilities for both humanity and science.Later sections contain readings that present key feminist theories about representation to examine how gender and technoscience are represented in areas of particular contemporary interest: the new human reproductive technologies, science fiction, film and the Internet. The readings constantly ask "Is this for women, for human beings?"Contributors: Alison Adam, Anne Balsamo, Lynda K. Bundtzen, Barbara Creed, Mary Ann Doane, Dion Farquhar, Jennifer Gonzalez, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Donna Haraway, Fiona Hovenden, Luce Irigaray, Linda Janes, Gill Kirkup, Nina Lykke, Sadie Plant, Rosalind Pollack Perchesky, Londa Schiebinger, Vivian Sobchack, Deborah Lynn Steinberg, Nancy Leys Stepan, Nina Wakeford, Kathryn Woodward. Zusammenfassung Considers how the cyborg has been used in cultural representation from reproductive technology to sci-fi, and questions the power of the cyborg as a symbol which disrupts categories (man / machine and male / female). Inhaltsverzeichnis One: Representing gender in technoscience; Introduction to Part One; 1.1: Taxonomy for Human Beings; 1.2: Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science; 1.3: A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s; 1.4: Envisioning Cyborg Bodies: Notes From Current Research; 1.5: Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations With Science; Two: Alien m/others: representing the feminine in science fiction film; Introduction to Part Two; 2.1: Monstrous Mothers; 2.2: Technophilia: Technology, Representation, and the Feminine; 2.3: Alien and the Monstrous-Feminine; 2.4: Postfuturism; 2.5: Reading Cyborgs Writing Feminism; Three: Representing reproduction: reproducing representation; Introduction to Part Three; 3.1: Foetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction; 3.2: Feminist Approaches to Science, Medicine and Technology; 3.3: (M)other Discourses; 3.4: The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order 1; Four: Refractions (women, technology and cyborgs); Introduction to Part Four; 4.1: When Our Lips Speak Together 1; 4.2: On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations; 4.3: Feminist AI Projects and Cyberfutures; 4.4: Gender and the Landscapes of Computing in an Internet CafÉ; 4.5: New Technologies of Race...

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Klappentext
"The Gendered Cyborg brings together material from a variety of disciplines that analyze the relationship between gender and technoscience, and the way that this relationship is represented through ideas, language and visual imagery. The book opens with key feminist articles from the history and philosophy of science. They look at the ways that modern scientific thinking has constructed oppositional dualities such as objectivity/subjectivity, human/machine, nature/science, and male/female, and how these have constrained who can engage in science/technology and how they have limited our ideas of the possibilities for both humanity and science.
Later sections contain readings that present key feminist theories about representation to examine how gender and technoscience are represented in areas of particular contemporary interest: the new human reproductive technologies, science fiction, film and the Internet. The readings constantly ask "Is this for women, for human beings?"
Contributors: Alison Adam, Anne Balsamo, Lynda K. Bundtzen, Barbara Creed, Mary Ann Doane, Dion Farquhar, Jennifer Gonzalez, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Donna Haraway, Fiona Hovenden, Luce Irigaray, Linda Janes, Gill Kirkup, Nina Lykke, Sadie Plant, Rosalind Pollack Perchesky, Londa Schiebinger, Vivian Sobchack, Deborah Lynn Steinberg, Nancy Leys Stepan, Nina Wakeford, Kathryn Woodward.

Zusammenfassung
Considers how the cyborg has been used in cultural representation from reproductive technology to sci-fi, and questions the power of the cyborg as a symbol which disrupts categories (man / machine and male / female).

Inhalt
One: Representing gender in technoscience; Introduction to Part One; 1.1: Taxonomy for Human Beings; 1.2: Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science; 1.3: A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s; 1.4: Envisioning Cyborg Bodies: Notes From Current Research; 1.5: Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations With Science; Two: Alien m/others: representing the feminine in science fiction film; Introduction to Part Two; 2.1: Monstrous Mothers; 2.2: Technophilia: Technology, Representation, and the Feminine; 2.3: Alien and the Monstrous-Feminine; 2.4: Postfuturism; 2.5: Reading Cyborgs Writing Feminism; Three: Representing reproduction: reproducing representation; Introduction to Part Three; 3.1: Foetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction; 3.2: Feminist Approaches to Science, Medicine and Technology; 3.3: (M)other Discourses; 3.4: The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order 1; Four: Refractions (women, technology and cyborgs); Introduction to Part Four; 4.1: When Our Lips Speak Together 1; 4.2: On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations; 4.3: Feminist AI Projects and Cyberfutures; 4.4: Gender and the Landscapes of Computing in an Internet CafÉ; 4.5: New Technologies of Race

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