The gendered cyborg : a reader
by
Kirkup, Gill.
Title
:
The gendered cyborg : a reader
Author
:
Kirkup, Gill.
ISBN
:
9780415220903
9780415220910
Publication Information
:
London ; New York : Routledge in association with the Open University, 2000.
Physical Description
:
xiv, 333 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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.
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 café / Nina Wakeford -- New technologies of race / Evelynn M. Hammonds.
Subject Term
:
Feminist theory.
Cyborgs.
Feminism and science.
Human reproduction -- Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects.
Science -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Added Author
:
Kirkup, Gill.
Electronic Access
:
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
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| VEGA Bordeaux | General Books | 000006744 | 305.420 MAIN | 1 |
| VEGA Cape Town | General Books | 000035430 | 305.420 GEN | 1 |
| VEGA Durban | General Books | 000013694 | 305.420 GEN | 1 |