Technofeminism
Technofeminism
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技术女性主义
DOI:
10.1080/09505430500042130
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Rosalind Gill
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作者:
Rosalind Gill
TechnoFeminism, by Judy Wajcman, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004, 160 pp., paperback £14, cloth £45. Are new technologies in biomedicine, genetics, cloning, and information and communication entirely different from older more established technologies? Why do some new technologies receive huge amounts of academic attention (e.g. stem cell research), while others are ignored almost entirely (e.g. food production technologies)? How are new technologies situated in relation to endemic global inequalities? What is the relationship of gender to these new technologies, and how should gender–technology relations be theorized? What kind of politics is needed to engage with cutting-edge technological transformations? Are we all cyborgs now—and what might this mean? These are just some of the questions addressed by Judy Wajcman in her tour de force TechnoFeminism. Judy Wajcman has long been established as one of our most important theorists of gender–technology relations. Her work may not have been greeted as rapturously as that of Donna Haraway, nor has she achieved the cult-celebrity status of someone like Judith Butler, but she has been a consistently clear, lucid, rigorous thinker whose work has made a major contribution to feminist theory, science and technology studies (STS) and, above all, to thinking the connection between them. The Social Shaping of Technology, which Wajcman co-edited with Donald MacKenzie, is recognized as a key, defining text in the sociology of technology, and was reprinted no fewer than seven times between 1985 and the publication of its second edition in 1999. One of its strengths was in generating a dialogue between largely male ‘mainstream’ STS and emerging feminist writing about domestic, workplace and reproductive technologies. These themes were further developed in Feminism Confronts Technology (Wajcman, 1991) which was both a review of the field and an argument for building a feminist perspective in social science debates about technology. It explored the ways in which Science as Culture Vol. 14, No. 1, 97–101, March 2005
影响因子:
0.7
作者:
D. Haraway
通讯作者:
D. Haraway