The Gendered Cyborg

A Reader
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-22090-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 850 g

The Gendered Cyborg explores the relationship between representation, technoscience and gender, through the metaphor of the cyborg. The contributors argue that the figure of the cyborg offers ways of thinking about the relationship between culture and technology, people and machines which disrupt the power of science to enfore the categories through which we think about being human: male and female. Taking inspiration from Donna Haraway's groundbreaking Manifesto for Cyborgs, the articles consider how the cyborg has been used in cultural representation from reproductive technology to sci-fi, and question whether the cyborg is as powerful a symbol as is often claimed. The different sections of the reader explore: * the construction of gender categories through science
* the interraction of technoscience and gender in contemporary science fiction film such as Bladerunner and the Alien series
* debates around modern reproductive technology such as ultrasound scans and IVF, assessing their benefits and constraints for women
* issues relating to artificial intelligence and the internet.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hovenden, Fiona

Janes, Linda

Kirkup, Gill

Woodward, Kathryn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

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