Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology
by Patrick D. Hopkins
Part 1: Inventing Histories: Gender and Technological
Development
1. Women Hold Up Two-Thirds of the Sky: Notes for a Revised History
of Technology Autumn Stanley
2. The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology
and Social Change in the 20th Century Ruth Schwartz Cowan
3. The Culture of the Telephone Michéle Martin
4. Femininity and the Electric Car Virginia Scharff
5. Does Technology Work for Women Too? Lilia Oblepias-Ramos
Part 2: (Mis?)Conceptions: Morality and Gender Politics in
Reproductive Technology
6. Bioethics and Fatherhood Daniel Callahan
7. Artificial Insemination: Who's Responsible? Ronald Munson
8. Sex Preselection: Eugenics for Everyone? Helen B. Holmes
9. The Ethics of Sex Preselection Mary Anne Warren
10. Surrogate Motherhood: The Challenge for Feminists Lori B.
Andrews
Part 3: (Re)Locating Fetuses: Technology and New Body
Politics
11. Male Pregnancy Dick Teresi and Kathleen McAuliffe
12. Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis
Julien S. Murphy
13. New Reproductive Technology: Some Implications for the Abortion
Issue Christine Overall
14. Opinion in the Matter of Davis v. Davis Supreme Court of the
State of Tennessee
Part 4: Body Building: The (Re)Construction of Sex and
Sexuality
15. The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of
Intersexed Infants Suzanne J. Kessler
16. Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of
Women's Bodies Kathryn Pauly Morgan
17. Facing the Dilemma Kathy David
18. Sappho by Surgery Janice G. Raymond
19. The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto Sandy
Stone
20. Reproductive Controls and Sexual Destiny Timothy F. Murphy
Part 5: (Virtual?) Gender: From Computer Culture to
Cyberspace
21. Computational Reticence: Why Women Fear the Intimate Machine
Sherry Turkle
22. Excluding Women from the Technologies of the Future?: A Case
Study of the Culture of Computer Science Bente Rasmussen and Tove
Håpnes
23. Tinysex and Gender Trouble Sherry Turkle
24. In Novel Conditions: The Cross-Dressing Psychiatrist Allucquere
Roseanne Stone
Part 6: Our Machines/Our Selves: Gender and Cyborg Subjects
25. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism
in the Late Twentieth Century Donna J. Haraway
26. Automating Gender: Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the
Intelligent Machine Judith Halberstam
27. The Pleasure of the Interface Claudia Springer
Contributors
Index
Provocative views on the interface of gender and technology.
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.
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