TechnoFeminism

Name: TechnoFeminism
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ISBN: 9780745630441

ISBN-10: 0745630448

ISBN-13: 9780745630441

Edition: 2004

Authors: Judy Wajcman

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Do technologies have sex? Until recently popular stereotypes have associated technology strongly with masculinity. But in the new digital age, wired women are populating cyberspace and embracing technological change. The cyborg figure has fired the feminist imagination as an icon of womenrsquo;s power and freedom from biological sex difference. What does the new global information society interconnected, genetically engineered, digitally designed, remotely controlled hold for women? While most commentators assert that everything in the digital future will be different, how true is this for the social relations of gender? This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 5/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Feminist Utopia or Dystopia?



Male Designs on Technology


From Access to Equity


Science as Ideology


Technology as Patriarchal


Sex, Class and Technology



Technoscience Reconfigured


Beyond Technological Determinism


From Gender-Blind to Gender-Aware


Combining Feminist and Technology Studies



Virtual Gender


Networked Community


Cyberfeminism: 'The clitoris is a direct line to the matrix'


Performing Gender in Cyberspace


Technology as Freedom



The Cyborg Solution


Embracing Science and Technology


From Man of Science to FemaleMan


OncoMouse: Technologizing Life and Reprogramming Nature


Send in the Cyborgs



Metaphor and Materiality


Changing Technologies, Changing Subjectivities


Towards Technofeminism


Sociotechnical Practices: Expertise and Agency


Notes


Index