Between monsters, goddesses, and cyborgs : feminist confrontations with science, medicine, and cyberspace
by
 
Lykke, Nina.

Title
Between monsters, goddesses, and cyborgs : feminist confrontations with science, medicine, and cyberspace

Author
Lykke, Nina.

ISBN
9781856493826
 
9781856493819

Publication Information
London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, 1996.

Physical Description
260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents
Introduction / Nina Lykke -- 1. Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science / Nina Lykke -- 2. From Hestia to Home Page: Feminism and the Concept of Home in Cyberspace / Susan Leigh Star -- 3. Dialogues with Dolphins and Other Extraterrestrials: Displacements in Gendered Space / Mette Bryld -- 4. The Tale of the Universe for Others / Renee Heller -- 5. Objectivity in the Description of Nature: Between Social Construction and Essentialism / Kirsten Gram-Hanssen -- 6. On Healing Self/Nature / Julia Martin -- 7. Does Woman Speaks for Nature? Towards a Genealogy of Ecological Feminisms / Sylvia Bowerbank -- 8. Signs of Wonder and Traces of Doubt: On Teratology and Embodied Differences / Rosi Braidotti -- 9. The Decline of the One-Size-Fits-All Paradigm, or, How Reproductive Scientists Try to Cope with Postmodernity / Nelly Oudshoorn -- 10. Medicalization of Menopause: From 'Feminine Forever' to 'Healthy Forever' / Bettina Leysen.
 
11. Postmodern Vision of the Postmenopausal Body: The Apparatus of Bodily Production and the Case of Brittle Bones / Ineke Van Wingerden -- 12. The Salutary Tale of the Pre-Embryo / Pat Spallone -- 13. Gynogenesis: A Lesbian Appropriation of Reproductive Technologies / Elirabeth Sourbut -- Postface / Nina Lykke and Rosi Braidotti.

Subject Term
Science.
 
Feminism.
 
Women in science.
 
Women's studies.

Added Author
Lykke, Nina.
 
Braidotti, Rosi.


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