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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... of the Intelligent Machine JUDITH HALBERSTAM 27. The Pleasure of the Interface CLAUDIA SPRINGER CONTRIBUTORS 501 INDEX 505 434 468 484 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book could not have been produced without substantial vi / Contents.
... produced without substantial institutional sup- port . My most extensive thanks , then , go to the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University , whose Postdoctoral Fellowship in Applied Philosophy and generous financial ...
... producing spe- cies . Technology is always present in variegated forms , both subdued and obvi- ous , and is always fundamental to the basic structure and activity of society . Similarly , humans are always already embedded in some sex ...
... produced and often socially detrimental to the conclusion that they can be radically altered for the better through education , legal re- form , and improved theoretical understanding . While both sides depend for these moves on the ...
... produced by genetic engineering , cybernetic implants , nanotechnological reconstruction , and artificial ... producing and politically explosive than mere gender - role shifting technologies because altering the very physicality of sex ...
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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