Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1996
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219pp, b/w ills, notes, index. Paperback. 'This book takes the process of 'reading the body' into the fields at the forefront of culture to show that the body in high-tech is as gendered as ever. From female bodybuilding to virtual reality, from cosmetic surgery to cyberpunk, from reproductive medicine to public health policies to TV science programs, the author articulates the key issues concerning the status of the body for feminist cultural studies in a postmodern world'. Size: Trade Paperback.
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- Title
- Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women
- Author
- Balsamo, Anne
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, Durham, NC
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822316986
- ISBN 13
- 9780822316985
- Edition
- First Paperback.
- Seller catalogs
- Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology, Ethnology, Medicine / Health / Psych
Technologies of the Gendered Body combines close readings of popular texts—such as Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale, the movie Pumping Iron II: The Women, cyberpunk magazines, and mass media—with analyses of medical literature, public policy documents, and specific technological practices. Balsamo describes the ways in which certain biotechnologies are ideologically shaped by gender considerations and other beliefs about race, physical abilities, and economic and legal status. She presents a view of the conceptual system that structures individuals’ access to and participation in these technologies, as well as an overview of individuals’ rights and responsibilities in this sometimes baffling area. Examining the ways in which the body is gendered in its interactions with new technologies of corporeality, Technologies of the Gendered Body counters the claim that in our scientific culture the material body has become obsolete. With ample evidence that the techno-body is always gendered and marked by race, this book sets the stage for a renewed feminist engagement with contemporary technological narratives.
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About the Author
Anne Balsamo is a principle scientist at Xerox PARC and a member of a multidisciplinary research design group RED: Research in Experimental Documents. RED’s recent research took form as a museum exhibit titled “XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading” that will tour science/technology museums in North America through 2004. She is also an affiliate faculty member at the Institute for Globalization and Information Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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