Technofeminism

This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship. However, it is feminist politics rather than the technologies themselves that make the difference. TechnoFeminism fuses the visionary insights of cyberfeminism with a materialist analysis of the sexual politics of technology.

Judy Wajcman is Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and a Visiting Centennial Professor in the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics

Preface

vii

Introduction: Feminist Utopia or Dystopia?

1

(9)

1 Male Designs on Technology

10

(22)

From Access to Equity

13

(3)

Science as Ideology

16

(2)

Technology as Patriarchal

18

(5)

Sex, Class and Technology

23

(9)

2 Technoscience Reconfigured

32

(24)

Beyond Technological Determinism

33

(7)

From Gender-Blind to Gender-Aware

40

(5)

Combining Feminist and Technology Studies

45

(11)

3 Virtual Gender

56

(22)

Networked Community

58

(5)

Cyberfeminism: 'The clitoris is a direct line to the matrix'

63

(3)

Performing Gender in Cyberspace

66

(5)

Technology as Freedom

71

(7)

4 The Cyborg Solution

78

(24)

Embracing Science and Technology

80

(3)

From Man of Science to FemaleMan©

83

(5)

OncoMouse™: Technologizing Life and Reprogramming Nature

88

(4)

Send in the Cyborgs

92

(10)

5 Metaphor and Materiality

102

(29)

Changing Technologies, Changing Subjectivities

104

(4)

Towards Technofeminism

108

(8)

Sociotechnical Practices: Expertise and Agency

116

(15)

Notes

131

(12)

Index

143

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