Sex/machine : readings in culture, gender, and technology
Comprises 27 papers which explore how cultural ideas of sex roles and gender affect the development and use of technologies and also how the technologies themselves often change notions of gender. Examines moral and legal issues of reproductive technology and investigates the use of body-altering technologies. Discusses differences in men's and women's computer use and explores issues of gender and identity in relation to cyborgs - entities that combine the distinctive categories of organism and machine
Print Book, English, ©1998
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©1998
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x, 510 pages ; 23 cm.
9780253212306, 9780253334411, 0253212308, 0253334411
960912056
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology by Patrick D. HopkinsPart 1: Inventing Histories: Gender and Technological Development1. Women Hold Up Two-Thirds of the Sky: Notes for a Revised History of Technology Autumn Stanley2. The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century Ruth Schwartz Cowan3. The Culture of the Telephone Michéle Martin4. Femininity and the Electric Car Virginia Scharff5. Does Technology Work for Women Too? Lilia Oblepias-RamosPart 2: (Mis?)Conceptions: Morality and Gender Politics in Reproductive Technology6. Bioethics and Fatherhood Daniel Callahan7. Artificial Insemination: Who's Responsible? Ronald Munson8. Sex Preselection: Eugenics for Everyone? Helen B. Holmes9. The Ethics of Sex Preselection Mary Anne Warren10. Surrogate Motherhood: The Challenge for Feminists Lori B. AndrewsPart 3: (Re)Locating Fetuses: Technology and New Body Politics11. Male Pregnancy Dick Teresi and Kathleen McAuliffe12. Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis Julien S. Murphy13. New Reproductive Technology: Some Implications for the Abortion Issue Christine Overall14. Opinion in the Matter of Davis v. Davis Supreme Court of the State of TennesseePart 4: Body Building: The (Re)Construction of Sex and Sexuality15. The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants Suzanne J. Kessler16. Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies Kathryn Pauly Morgan17. Facing the Dilemma Kathy David18. Sappho by Surgery Janice G. Raymond19. The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto Sandy Stone20. Reproductive Controls and Sexual Destiny Timothy F. MurphyPart 5: (Virtual?) Gender: From Computer Culture to Cyberspace21. Computational Reticence: Why Women Fear the Intimate Machine Sherry Turkle22. Excluding Women from the Technologies of the Future?: A Case Study of the Culture of Computer Science Bente Rasmussen and Tove Håpnes23. Tinysex and Gender Trouble Sherry Turkle24. In Novel Conditions: The Cross-Dressing Psychiatrist Allucquere Roseanne StonePart 6: Our Machines/Our Selves: Gender and Cyborg Subjects25. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century Donna J. Haraway26. Automating Gender: Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine Judith Halberstam27. The Pleasure of the Interface Claudia SpringerContributorsIndex