Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and TechnologyPatrick D. Hopkins " . . . discusses the complex connections between gender and technology . . . an intriguing and enlightening book, the latest in an outstanding . . . series by Indiana University Press." —Bruce Hilton, Scripps Howard News Service |
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... Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity , ed . Julia Epstein and Kris- tina Straub ( New York : Routledge ) . © 1991 by Routledge , Chapman , and Hall , Inc. Reprinted by the kind permission of the ... CULTURE , GENDER , x / Acknowledgments.
... Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity , ed . Julia Epstein and Kris- tina Straub ( New York : Routledge ) . © 1991 by Routledge , Chapman , and Hall , Inc. Reprinted by the kind permission of the ... CULTURE , GENDER , x / Acknowledgments.
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... culture shock . The issues in this book , then , are both global and personal . Like race , age , religion , science , culture , and politics , gender and technology form and transform society and individuals . Questions about these ...
... culture shock . The issues in this book , then , are both global and personal . Like race , age , religion , science , culture , and politics , gender and technology form and transform society and individuals . Questions about these ...
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... culture to culture and time to time , but which layers vast cultural meaning on the evolved sexual dimorphism of the human organism , setting different roles , expectations , assessments , and values for members of different sexes ...
... culture to culture and time to time , but which layers vast cultural meaning on the evolved sexual dimorphism of the human organism , setting different roles , expectations , assessments , and values for members of different sexes ...
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... culture men have historically been associated with technology , while women are more typically associated with " nature , " perceived ( incorrectly , I would argue ) as the oppo- site of technology . Layering these dichotomies on top of ...
... culture men have historically been associated with technology , while women are more typically associated with " nature , " perceived ( incorrectly , I would argue ) as the oppo- site of technology . Layering these dichotomies on top of ...
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Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology Patrick D. Hopkins. be ignored — as.with technologies of gathering ... cultural gender ideals , such as identifying and eradicating homosexuality through genetic testing or guaranteeing ...
Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology Patrick D. Hopkins. be ignored — as.with technologies of gathering ... cultural gender ideals , such as identifying and eradicating homosexuality through genetic testing or guaranteeing ...
Contents
Women Hold Up TwoThird of the Sky Notes for a Revised History of Technology | 17 |
The Industrial Revolution in the Home Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century | 33 |
The Culture of the Telephone | 50 |
Femininity and the Electric Car | 75 |
Does Technology Work for Women Too? | 89 |
Mis?Conceptions Morality and Gender Politics in Reproductive Technology | 95 |
Bioethics and Fatherhood | 98 |
Artificial Insemination Whos Responsible? | 107 |
Women and the Knife Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Womens Bodies | 261 |
Facing the Dilemma | 286 |
Sappho by Surgery The Transsexually Constructed LesbianFeminist | 306 |
The Empire Strikes Back A Posttranssexual Manifesto | 322 |
Reproductive Controls and Sexual Destiny | 342 |
Virtual? Gender From Computer Culture to Cyberspace | 361 |
Computational Reticence Why Women Fear the Intimate Machine | 365 |
Excluding Women from the Technologies of the Future? A Case Study of the Culture of Computer Science | 381 |
Sex Preselection Eugenics for Everyone? | 116 |
The Ethics of Sex Preselection | 143 |
Surrogate Motherhood The Challenge for Feminists | 157 |
ReLocating Fetuses Technology and New Body Politics | 171 |
Male Pregnancy | 175 |
Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns about Ectogenesis | 184 |
New Reproductive Technology Some Implications for the Abortion Issue | 201 |
Opinion in the Matter of Davis vs Davis | 215 |
Body Building The ReConstruction of Sex and Sexuality | 237 |
The Medical Construction of Gender Case Management of Intersexed Infants | 241 |
Tinysex and Gender Trouble | 395 |
In Novel Conditions The CrossDressing Psychiatrist | 417 |
Our MachinesOur Selves Gender and Cyborg Subject | 431 |
A Cyborg Manifesto Science Technology and SocialistFeminist in the Late Twentieth Century | 434 |
Automating Gender Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine | 468 |
The Pleasure of the Interface | 484 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 501 |
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