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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... selection , and my own writing — especially Robert Hood and Jennifer McCrickerd ; to my editor at Indiana University Press — Dee Mor- tensen — who fielded countless questions about the labyrinthine complexities of copyright law and ...
... selection , ectogenesis , cloning , or concepts of personal identity on the Internet — now have the potential to pro- duce culture shock . The issues in this book , then , are both global and personal . Like race , age , religion ...
... selection tech- niques . Another kind of reinforcement occurs when one's gendered social posi- tion limits access to technology ( new or old ) . This is likely to happen when there is a strong sexual division of labor or when cultural ...
... selections discuss the meaning and value of cyborgs , the relationship between feminism and cyborgism , the shift from a radical feminist rejection of technology to a post- modern feminist identification with technology , and the ways ...
... selections in this section discuss these complex interactions , focusing on historical and conceptual issues and the extraordinary impact of several spe- cific technologies . Asking some fundamental questions about the basic historical ...
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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