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The Gender of Things
How Epistemic and Technological Objects Become Gendered
Taschenbuch von Maria Rentetzi
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung

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?

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
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
preigu-id: 126944287
Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
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
preigu-id: 126944287
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