Gendered innovations means employing methods of sex and gender analysis as a resource to create new knowledge and stimulate novel design. Download this work is based on a concern for womens health and autonomy and on the premise that technology and society mutually shape one another. Feminist perspectives, second edition, is a concise textbookreader that provides a critical and multifaceted approach to the study of gendered bodies. Each of the ten chapters in women, gender, and technology explores a different aspect of how gender and technology workand are at workin particular domains, including film narratives, reproductive technologies, information technology, and the profession of engineering. Anne marie balsamo born january 7, 1959 is a writer who focuses on the connections between art, culture, gender, and technology. Regardless of ones socioeconomic class, there are systematic gender differences in material wellbeing, although the degree. Technologies of the gendered body combines close readings of popular textssuch as margaret atwoods novel the handmaids tale, the movie pumping iron ii. From barbie and action man to guns via bicycles, perfume and trainers, the gendered object is an intriguing collection of new writing on the way in which objects of everyday life are made socially acceptable and appropriate for women or men. The revolutions in technology and information systems excite utopian aspirations, yet one may. Laura blankenship gendered technology societies around the world all claim in some manner or another that there are differences between the female and male sex. Wood, gendered lives, 11e introduces you to theories, research, and pragmatic information, demonstrating the multiple and. Even where males and females do have access to the same technology as a means of selfexpression, the way in which they use it is often very different. Introduction gender is a primary marker of social and economic stratification and, as a result, of exclusion. Balsamo, anne 1995 technologies of the gendered body.
Alison kidd, the prospectory january 2002 within the hightech industry, it is often assumed that men are more interested in technology than women are and they are therefore the natural early adopters of novel technical artefacts. We take a brief look at the history of laundry technology, examining the costs of locating laundry in the private sphere and discussing alternatives. For instance, gendered lives discusses how cultural prescriptions for gender foster grave problems such as anorexia, sexual harassment, rape, and battering. The technology of g like sexuality, we might then say, gender is not a property of bodies or. Martin university of michigan many feminist scholars argue that the seeming naturalness of gender differences, particularly bodily difference, underlies gender inequality. Study of communication, gender, and culture also demands attention to issues that will be personally painful to many students. Gendered lives download free epub, pdf written by leading gender communication scholar julia t. There are various visible ways in which people and cultures consciously and unconsciously maintain binary heteronormative norms, which involve choices of female or male gender. Deconstructing gendered designs in early 20th century technical toys, anika schleinzer, rwth aachen university, germany ani. Disciplining gendered bodies is the practice of conforming ones body to societys standards and expectations. One of the most fruitful bodies of work is the analysis of gender and technology lerman et al. This book takes the process of reading the body in the fields at the forefront of culture the vast spaces mapped by science and. Cyborgs, robots, artificial intelligence and the futures of gender. We highlight the links between laundry technology and ideologies about womens place.
An introduction to gender we are surrounded by gender lore from the time we are very small. Gender, body and everyday life introduction this paper sets out to examine the interface between gender, subject and everyday life in contemporary urban india. This book takes the process of reading the body into the fields at the. Rethinking embodiment in a cyberera by amanda du preez gendered. Technologies of the gendered body is open to graduate students, early career scholars, pro fessionals, and activists concerned about past and present approaches to the gendered body and the analysis of the epistemological frameworks that feminism has developed to analyze them. Acclaimed scholars judith lorber and lisa jean moore analyze the construction of gendered bodies in different contexts. Yet few researchers ask how these bodily differences are constructed. Our bodies have varying parts, but it is socialization that assigns our body parts gendered meaning. Technologies of the gendered body duke university press. Duke university press technologies of the gendered body. Feminist perspectives by judith lorber, lisa jean moore. In this way, this gives all societies a varied degree of gendered inequality.
Technology, inequality and conflict in a gendered world great lives series. As of today we have 75,403,193 ebooks for you to download for free. Do technologies take on different shapes, different practices, and have different impacts as they spread from one place to another. For it is largely men who control the information revolution that helps to educate, inform and. This website features stateoftheart methods of sex and gender analysis for basic and applied research. The internet and mobile phones have transformed our connections to people around the world. Article information, pdf download for forms of technological embodiment.
Your daily dose of whats up in emerging technology. I then turn to the anthropology of technology, which does not highlight gender to the same degree but nevertheless offers useful conceptual frameworks and methods for exploring gender regimes. Review gendered bodies provides an accessible introduction to feminist perspectives on gender and the body and a wealth of resources for exploring this domain of inquiry. What does the strawberry shortcake doll tell us about views of the adult female body. This book takes the process of reading the body into the fields at the forefront of culturethe vast spaces mapped by science and technologyto show that the. Rethinking embodiment in a cyberera, by amanda du preez this book first published 2009 cambridge scholars publishing 12 back chapman street, newcastle upon tyne, ne6 2xx, uk british library cataloguing in publication data a catalogue record for this book is available from the british library. Technology can gender us, but we can also be gendered by technology. Gender technology relations also feature in theanthropologyofwork,labor,anddevelop. Wiki for collaborative studies of arts, media and humanities. If we know were going to be talking about bodies, taking the adjectives male and female or. Gendered technology gender and technology spring 2009. Gendered body institute of historical sciences of the. This technology has also, however, led to a widening gender gap in poorer countries.
It is everpresent in conversation, humor, and conflict, and it is called upon to explain everything from driving styles to food preferences. The theoretical basis of this course is the notion that the human body is conceptualized and articulated within specific cultural discourses such as religious, medical, legal, economic, popular culture, and political discourses. This book takes the process of reading the body in the fields at the forefront of culture the vast spaces mapped by science and technology to show that the body in high tech is as gendered as ever. Technologies of gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory lacan, foucault, derrida, et al. On the flip side, technologies of beauty are traditionally gendered by society as feminine. In this chapter, we do not focus on answering the question, do women and men. A simple example of this would be the technology of makeup and cosmetics, which genders its users as feminine for the most part.
Examining the ways in which the body is gendered in its interactions with new technologies of corporeality, technologies of the gendered body counters the claim that in our scientific culture the material body has become obsolete. The authors are clearly committed to intersectional. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Gendered bodies and new technologies gendered bodies and new technologies. Using performance theory as an explanatory basis, this essay explicates the performance of gender in social media beginning with the gendered history of digital technologies and an articulation of.
Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. Gender mainstreaming was established as a major global strategy for the promotion of gender equality in the beijing platform for action from the fourth united nations world conference on women in. This book takes the process of reading the body into the fields at the forefront of culturethe vast spaces mapped by science and technology to show that the body in hightech is as gendered as ever. Pdf gendered innovations offer sophisticated methods of sex and gender analysis to scientists and engineers. Technologies of the gendered body institut menorqui destudis, mao balearic islands, spain 2325 may 2019. Gendered bodies introduces readers to womens visual art in contemporary china by.
We illustrate how to apply these methods in case studies. With ample evidence that the techno body is always gendered and marked by race, this book sets the stage for a. Due to licensing reasons, this contribution is not enclosed in the ebook version. Use pdf download to do whatever you like with pdf files on the web and regain control. The relationship between gender identity and the human body became in the nineties of 20th century one of the key research topics, as in gender studies, and in gender history itself. Feminist insights in social gerontology julia twigg school of social policy, sociology and social research, university of kent, canterbury, kent ct2 7ny, uk abstract drawing on insights from feminist gerontology, the article discusses the ways in which body, gender, and age.
The virtual reality film article pdf available in nora nordic journal of feminist and gender research 221. Designed for undergraduate students, gendered bodies. Web to pdf convert any web pages to highquality pdf. One of her books, technologies of the gendered body, notoriously begins with the sentence.
Women and technology, 1993 the relationship between women and technology has for the most part been discursively and materially configured as an awkward and rather ambiguous one. Gender in science and technology interdisciplinary. The ability to change myself, to upgrade my human form with the aid of technology. An interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between gender and technology.
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