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The Gender of Things is a highly interdisciplinary book that explores the power relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, addressing a seemingly straightforward question: How does a thing-such as a spacesuit, a humanoid robot, or a surgical instrument-become a gendered object?
The Gender of Things is a highly interdisciplinary book that explores the power relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, addressing a seemingly straightforward question: How does a thing-such as a spacesuit, a humanoid robot, or a surgical instrument-become a gendered object?
Maria Rentetzi is Professor of Science, Technology, and Gender Studies at FAU Erlangen- Nurnberg, and an affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, Germany.
Introduction: Gendering Things
Maria Rentetzi
Part 1: Things in/as Laboratories
Sealing Wax and String
Donald L. Opitz
Butter: Fat Lions and Dairy Girls
Anna Frasca-Rath
Gendered Images of Chromosomes
María Jesús Santesmases
Godofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World: Phantoms, Radioiodine Uptake Tests, and the IAEA's Standardization Projects
Maria Rentetzi
The Tell-Tale Heart: Multiple Ontologies of the First Human Donor Heart
Annerose Böhrer and Larissa Pfaller
Colourful Minilabs: Cosmeceuticals at the Interface of Gender, Technology, and Knowledge Transfers
Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez
Part 2: Things as Artefacts
Gendered Mobility: Early Motor Scooting around 1920
Heike Weber
A Make-up Kit from the National Air and Space Museum
Eleanor S. Armstrong
The Fan: Gendered Bodily Communication at the Intersection of Salon Semiotics, Fashion, Political Campaigning, and Menopause Relief
Annette Keilhauer
Gendering the Boundary Object: "Sophia the Robot" as Cyborg-Woman, Fashionista, Citizen, and Imagination
Roger A. Søraa and Nienke Bruijning
Animating Machines, Alienating Women: Siri and Alexa as Affective Linguistic Labourers
Siri Lamoureaux and Alexa Hagerty
Part 3: Things as Sites of Power
Dangerous Erections: Gender, Race, and the Engineering of Trump's Border Wall
Amy E. Slaton
Paternity and Pedigree: How Academic Genealogical Databases Become Gendered
Rebecca M. Herzig
Is the Scrum Board Feminine?
Stefan Sauer and Amelie Tihlarik
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
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Genre: | Soziologie |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 234 |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9781032459127 |
ISBN-10: | 1032459123 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Redaktion: | Rentetzi, Maria |
Hersteller: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Maße: | 231 x 154 x 15 mm |
Von/Mit: | Maria Rentetzi |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 29.09.2023 |
Gewicht: | 0,394 kg |
Maria Rentetzi is Professor of Science, Technology, and Gender Studies at FAU Erlangen- Nurnberg, and an affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, Germany.
Introduction: Gendering Things
Maria Rentetzi
Part 1: Things in/as Laboratories
Sealing Wax and String
Donald L. Opitz
Butter: Fat Lions and Dairy Girls
Anna Frasca-Rath
Gendered Images of Chromosomes
María Jesús Santesmases
Godofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World: Phantoms, Radioiodine Uptake Tests, and the IAEA's Standardization Projects
Maria Rentetzi
The Tell-Tale Heart: Multiple Ontologies of the First Human Donor Heart
Annerose Böhrer and Larissa Pfaller
Colourful Minilabs: Cosmeceuticals at the Interface of Gender, Technology, and Knowledge Transfers
Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez
Part 2: Things as Artefacts
Gendered Mobility: Early Motor Scooting around 1920
Heike Weber
A Make-up Kit from the National Air and Space Museum
Eleanor S. Armstrong
The Fan: Gendered Bodily Communication at the Intersection of Salon Semiotics, Fashion, Political Campaigning, and Menopause Relief
Annette Keilhauer
Gendering the Boundary Object: "Sophia the Robot" as Cyborg-Woman, Fashionista, Citizen, and Imagination
Roger A. Søraa and Nienke Bruijning
Animating Machines, Alienating Women: Siri and Alexa as Affective Linguistic Labourers
Siri Lamoureaux and Alexa Hagerty
Part 3: Things as Sites of Power
Dangerous Erections: Gender, Race, and the Engineering of Trump's Border Wall
Amy E. Slaton
Paternity and Pedigree: How Academic Genealogical Databases Become Gendered
Rebecca M. Herzig
Is the Scrum Board Feminine?
Stefan Sauer and Amelie Tihlarik
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
---|---|
Genre: | Soziologie |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 234 |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9781032459127 |
ISBN-10: | 1032459123 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Redaktion: | Rentetzi, Maria |
Hersteller: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Maße: | 231 x 154 x 15 mm |
Von/Mit: | Maria Rentetzi |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 29.09.2023 |
Gewicht: | 0,394 kg |