Processed Lives
Gender and Technology in Everyday Life
Published on 20. March 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-415-14932-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'It all adds up to a provocative and stimulating book.' - I-D Magazine'Those tempted to think of their machines as neutral bystanders in the gender wars will find plenty to change their minds.' - Wired
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
462 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-14932-7 (9780415149327)
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Persons
Melodie Calvert, Jennifer Terry
Content
Chapter Introduction: Machine/Lives; part one: DIGITAL WORLDS; Chapter 1 Virtually Female: Body and Code; Chapter 2 Girl TV; Chapter 3 Remote Control: The Electronic Transference; Chapter 4 She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology; Chapter 5 Networking Women and Grrrls with Information/Communication Technology: Surfing Tales of the World Wide Web; Chapter 6 Hiatus; Chapter 7 Romancing the System: Women, Narrative Film, and the Sexuality of Computers; Chapter 8 Taylor's Way: Women, Cultures and Technology; part two: BODIES; Chapter 9 Indiscretions: Of Body, Gender, Technology; Chapter 10 Present Tense; Chapter 11 New Technologies of Race; Chapter 12 The Visible Man: The Male Criminal Subject as Biomedical Norm; Chapter 13 Inseminations; Chapter 14 Unnatural Acts: Procreation and the Genealogy of Artifice; Chapter 15 23 Questions; Chapter 16 Biotechnology and the Taming of Women's Bodies; Chapter 17 Brains on Toast: The Inexact Science of Gender; part three: HOME; Chapter 18 Techno-Homo: On Bathrooms, Butches, and Sex with Furniture; Chapter 19 Home Surgery Instructions; Chapter 20 Is It Tomorrow or Just the End of Time?; Chapter 21 Vulnerabilities; Chapter 22 The Party Line: Gender and Technology in the Home; Chapter 23 Information America;