The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415220910 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 348 str.

Gill Kirkup; Linda Janes; Kathryn Woodward

Opis

Bringing together key writings, this text explores the relationship between representation, technoscience and gender, through the metaphor of the cyborg. While the contributors argue that the cyborg provides new ways to think about the relationship between culture and technology and between women and machines, they also question whether the cyborg represents a challenge to, or simply another representation of, gendered categories in science. The articles are grouped into thematic sections, exploring: the ways in which Western science has produced and represented gender, discussing the importance of Donna Haraway's Manifesto for Cyborgs; the science-gender relationship in contemporary science fiction films such as Blade Runner and the Alien series; debates around modern reproductive technology such as ultrasound scans and IVF, and their benefits and constraints for women; and issues relating to artificial intelligence and the Internet.

Recenzje

'...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

Spis treści

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