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
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0650/99016255-d.html


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