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Between monsters, goddesses and cyborgs : feminist confrontations with science, medicine and cyberspace

Title: Between monsters, goddesses and cyborgs : feminist confrontations with science, medicine and cyberspace / Nina Lykke & Rosi Braidotti, (eds.)
Publication: New Jersey : Zed Books, 1996.

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260 pages; 23 cm

Summary

What is specifically feminist perspective on science and technology? Focusing in particular on the socio-cultural implications of the latest scientific and technological developments, this book proposes a site of resistance to hegemonic discourse and practices of science and technology.
It is divided into four sections covering science as a whole, the new technologies of the postmodern era, bio-medical discourses, and nature. A distinguished cast of contributors explores the central feminist concerns in each arena, through the central metaphors of monster, mother goddess and cyborg. They look at the consequences of gynogenesis, postmodern eco-buddhism in heathcare, sexual violence in cyberspace, the postmodernization of menopause, the dolphin as androgyne and feminist environmentalism.
Throughout they are concerned to demonstrate the importance of dialogue between the natural and social sciences.
This important book shows that feminists cannot ignore either the emancipatory or the oppressive potential of technological progress. Bringing together 'natural' and 'social' scientists, the book paves the way for a specifically feminist strategy for science, technology, and health care. As such, it is vital reading for students, academics and activists in women's studies, cultural studies, the philosophy and social studies of science, health and the environment.

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Contents

Introduction / Nina Lykke -- 1. Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science / Nina Lykke -- 2. From Hestia to Home Page: Feminism and the Concept of Home in Cyberspace / Susan Leigh Star -- 3. Dialogues with Dolphins and Other Extraterrestrials: Displacements in Gendered Space / Mette Bryld -- 4. The Tale of the Universe for Others / Renee Heller -- 5. Objectivity in the Description of Nature: Between Social Construction and Essentialism / Kirsten Gram-Hanssen -- 6. On Healing Self/Nature / Julia Martin -- 7. Does Woman Speaks for Nature? Towards a Genealogy of Ecological Feminisms / Sylvia Bowerbank -- 8. Signs of Wonder and Traces of Doubt: On Teratology and Embodied Differences / Rosi Braidotti -- 9. The Decline of the One-Size-Fits-All Paradigm, or, How Reproductive Scientists Try to Cope with Postmodernity / Nelly Oudshoorn -- 10. Medicalization of Menopause: From 'Feminine Forever' to 'Healthy Forever' / Bettina Leysen --
11. Postmodern Vision of the Postmenopausal Body: The Apparatus of Bodily Production and the Case of Brittle Bones / Ineke Van Wingerden -- 12. The Salutary Tale of the Pre-Embryo / Pat Spallone -- 13. Gynogenesis: A Lesbian Appropriation of Reproductive Technologies / Elizabeth Sourbut -- Postface / Nina Lykke and Rosi Braidotti.

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96001309

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Columbia University Libraries