
Copula
Sexual Technologies, Reproductive Powers
Robyn Ferrell(Author)
State University of New York Press
Published on 29. June 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
190 pages
978-0-7914-6754-1 (ISBN)
Description
Explores the conceptual schema underlying our understanding of reproductive technologies.
How will the ability to manipulate human reproduction change our social world and the relationship between the sexes? Taking an explicitly interdisciplinary approach to gender and reproductive technology, Robyn Ferrell examines this question in the light of feminist theories of sexual equality and sexual difference, arguing that technology itself can be seen as a kind of reproduction. Invoking a concept of reproduction that understands it as generic, Ferrell asserts that in any reproduction, something is produced of a kind that was there before and yet that is also new. Technology is therefore generically reproductive, since it produces new matter of the same kind. In addition to key figures in French feminism, Ferrell draws from psychoanalysis and contemporary continental thinkers ranging from Heidegger to Haraway.
How will the ability to manipulate human reproduction change our social world and the relationship between the sexes? Taking an explicitly interdisciplinary approach to gender and reproductive technology, Robyn Ferrell examines this question in the light of feminist theories of sexual equality and sexual difference, arguing that technology itself can be seen as a kind of reproduction. Invoking a concept of reproduction that understands it as generic, Ferrell asserts that in any reproduction, something is produced of a kind that was there before and yet that is also new. Technology is therefore generically reproductive, since it produces new matter of the same kind. In addition to key figures in French feminism, Ferrell draws from psychoanalysis and contemporary continental thinkers ranging from Heidegger to Haraway.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
263 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-6754-1 (9780791467541)
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Person
Robyn Ferrell is Associate Professor in Creative Writing in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne and the author of several books, including Genres of Philosophy and Passion in Theory: Conceptions of Freud and Lacan.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Maternal in Its Natural Habitat
2. Brave New World
3. Reproducing Technology
4. Conceiving of Feminism
5. Feminism Is a Kind of Time
6. The Lore of the Father
7. The Figure of the Copula
8. The Body as Material Event
9. The Technology of Genre
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
1. The Maternal in Its Natural Habitat
2. Brave New World
3. Reproducing Technology
4. Conceiving of Feminism
5. Feminism Is a Kind of Time
6. The Lore of the Father
7. The Figure of the Copula
8. The Body as Material Event
9. The Technology of Genre
Bibliography
Index