Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415149312 ISBN 13: 9780415149310

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Considers how the terms of gender are embodied in technologies, and conversely, how technologies shape our notions of gender. The contributors explore the complex territory between the lust for, and the fear of, technology, commenting on the ambivalence women experience in relation to machines. Discussing topics such as embryonic fertilization, the virtual female, networking women, the sexuality of computers, surveillance systems, UFOs, and the emancipation of Barbie,
rocessed Lives offers a provocative, visually rich critical approach to th multifaceted relationships between masculinity, femininity and machines. Contributors: Barbie Liberation Organization, Ericka Beckman, Lisa Cartwright, Gregg Bordowitz, Sara Diamond, Judith Halberstam, Evelynn Hammonds, Kathy High, David Horn, Ira Livingston, Bonita Makuch, Margaret Morse, Soheir Morsy, Liss Platt, B Ruby Rich, Connie Samaras, Joya Saunders, Julia Scher, Andrea Slane, Mary Ellen Strom, Christime Tamblyn, Nina Wakeford.

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Review:

""Processed Lives analyzes the interrelations of gender and technology.It considers how the terms of gender are embodied in technologies and, conversely, how technologies shape our notions of gender.."
-Bulleti of science, Technology & Society/ October 2000.
""Processed Lives...contributes new theoretical and practical insights about the experience and understanding of these technologies."
-"Signs, Autumn 1999
..."this book offers a provocative, visually rich and playful critical approach to the multifaceted relationships between masculinity, femininity and machines."
-"Parachute
"Catalog Blurb."
-Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Oct. 2000

Synopsis:

We live in a world saturated by innovative technology. A world which has seen a dramatic profileration of new devices, methods of communication, biological and biomedical developments and creative domestic machinery. But are these new technologies and machineries helpful for our understading of gender? Are they merely reflecting our concepts of masculinity and femininity, or can they shape these notions? Processed Lives analyzes the interrelations of gender and technology. It considers how the terms of gender are embodied in technologies, and conversely, how technologies shape our notions of gender. The contributors explore the complex territory between the lust for technology and the fear of technology, commenting particularly on the ambivalence women experience in relation to machines. Discussing topics such as embryonic fertilization, the virtual female, networking women, the sexuality of computers, the male criminal, the inexact science of gender, bathrooms, and the emancipation of Barbie, Processed Lives asks the question, who actually benefits from technology?

Barbie Liberation Organisation, Ericka Beckman, Lisa Cartwright, Gregg Bordowitz, Sara Diamond, Judith Halberstam, Evelynn Hammonds, Kathy High, David Horn, Ira Livingston, Bonita Makuch, Margaret

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415149312
• ISBN 13: 9780415149310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Calvert Melodie, Terry Jennifer