Sex/Machine

"... discusses the complex connections between gender and technology... an intriguing and enlightening book, the latest in an outstanding... series by Indiana University Press." -- Bruce Hilton, Scripps Howard News ServiceHow does technology influence gender roles? From personal computers and cyberspace to artificial wombs and sex reassignment surgery, technology has opened up the possibility that sex roles as well as the gendered notions we have of human identity are subject to radical change. This engaging anthology examines long-standing stereotypical associations of men with technology and women with nature and assesses the impact of technologies that have necessarily blurred distinctions between the sexes and altered traditional views of gender.

Patrick D. Hopkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ripon College. He is co-editor (with Larry May and Robert Strikwerda) of Rethinking Masculinity: Philosophical Explorations in Light of Feminism. He is currently working on a book that is provisionally titled, Un/Natural: "Nature," "Culture," and Technology in Moral and Political Discourse.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction: The Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology

1

(16)

Patrick D. Hopkins

Part I: Inventing Histories Gender and Technological Development

Women Hold Up Two-Thirds of the Sky: Notes for a Revised History of Technology

17

(16)

Autumn Stanley

The ``Industrial Revolution'' in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

33

(17)

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

The Culture of the Telephone

50

(25)

Michele Martin

Femininity and the Electric Car

75

(14)

Virginia Scharff

Does Technology Work for Women Too?

89

(9)

Lilia Oblepias-Ramos

Part II: (Mis?) Conceptions Morality and Gender Politics in Reproductive Technology

Bioethics and Fatherhood

98

(9)

Daniel Callahan

Artificial Insemination: Who's Responsible?

107

(9)

Ronald Munson

Sex Preselection: Eugenics for Everyone?

116

(27)

Helen Bequaert Holmes

The Ethics of Sex Preselection

143

(14)

Mary Anne Warren

Surrogate Motherhood: The Challenge for Feminists

157

(18)

Lori B. Andrews

Part III: (Re) Locating Fetuses Technology and New Body Politics

Male Pregnancy

175

(9)

Dick Teresi

Kathleen Mcauliffe

Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns about Ectogenesis

184

(17)

Julien S. Murphy

New Reproductive Technology: Some Implications for the Abortion Issue

201

(40)

Christine Overall

Opinion in the Matter of Davis v. Davis

Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee

215

(26)

Part IV: Body Building The (Re) Construction of Sex and Sexuality

The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexual Infants

241

(20)

Suzanne J. Kessler

Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies

261

(25)

Kathryn Pauly Morgan

Facing the Dilemma

286

(20)

Kathy Davis

Sappho by Surgery: The Transsexually Constructed Lesbian-Feminist

306

(16)

Janice G. Raymond

The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto

322

(20)

Sandy Stone

Reproductive Controls and Sexual Destiny

342

(23)

Timothy F. Murphy

Part V: (Virtual?) Gender From Computer Culture to Cyberspace

Computational Reticence: Why Women Fear the Intimate Machine

365

(16)

Sherry Turkle

Excluding Women from the Technologies of the Future? A Case Study of the Culture of Computer Science

381

(14)

Bente Rasmussen

Tove Hapnes

Tinysex and Gender Trouble

395

(22)

Sherry Turkle

In Novel Conditions: The Cross-Dressing Psychiatrist

417

(17)

Allucquere Rosanne Stone

Part VI: Our Machines/Our Selves Gender and Cyborg Subjects

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

434

(34)

Donna J. Haraway

Automating Gender: Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine

468

(16)

Judith Halberstam

The Pleasure of the Interface

484

(17)

Claudia Springer

Contributors

501

(4)

Index

505

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