The gendered cyborg : a reader

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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.

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Kirkup, Gill.

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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.