| Description |
xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction to part one / Gill Kirkup -- Taxonomy for human beings / Londa Schiebinger -- Race and gender: the role of analogy in science / Nancy Leys Stepan -- A manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s / Donna J. Haraway -- Envisioning cyborg bodies: notes from current research / Jennifer González -- Between monsters, goddesses and cyborgs: feminist confrontations with science / Nina Lykke -- Introduction to part two / Linda Janes -- Monstrous mothers: medusa, grendel, and now alien / Lynda K. Bundtzen -- Technophilia: technology, representation, and the feminine / Mary Ann Doane -- Alien and the monstrous-feminine / Barbara Creed -- Postfuturism / Vivian Sobchack -- Reading cyborgs writing feminism / Anne Balsamo -- Introduction to part three / Kathryn Woodward |
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Foetal images: the power of visual culture in the politics of reproduction / Rosalind Pollack Petchesky -- Feminist approaches to science, medicine and technology / Deborah Lynn Steinberg -- (M)other discourses / Dion Farquhar -- The virtual speculum in the new world order / Donna J. Haraway -- Introduction to part four / Fiona Hovenden -- When our lips speak together / Luce Irigaray -- On the matrix: cyberfeminist simulations / Sadie Plant -- Feminist AI projects and cyberfutures / Alison Adam -- Gender and the landscapes of computing in an internet cafée / Nina Wakeford -- New technologies of race / Evelynn M. Hammonds |
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Feminist theory.
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Cyborgs.
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Feminism and science.
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Human reproduction -- Social aspects.
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Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects.
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Science -- Social aspects.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Kirkup, Gill.
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| ISBN |
0415220904 alkaline paper |
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9780415220903 alkaline paper |
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0415220912 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780415220910 paperback alkaline paper |
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