Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life
No description availableProcessed Lives focuses on technology’s interaction with the social concept of gender. Much of the book deals with the technology of cyberspace–not surprising, given the subtitle’s pointed reference to everyday life, which for most people concerned with cyber matters means something to do with the Internet. For example, the editors chose Nina Wakeford’s essay on feminist networking and interaction on the World Wide Web, as well as excerpts from videos produced by teenage girls in a gender and technology workshop. Although the emphasis is on online interactions, all forms of technology are fair game. Judith Halberstam’s insights into the effects of public bathrooms on gender views will certainly raise eyebrows as it raises questions. Other essays take on embryonic fertilization, surveillance systems, UFOs and “the new technologies of race.” A group calling itself the Barbie Liberation Organization does some home transplant surgery between G.I…. More >>
Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life
Twenty-three contributors explore the questions: How exactly do technologies produce bodies (and subjects) that are recognizably raced, gendered and sexualized? How can technology be used to transform cultural conceptions of gender, sexuality, and embodiment? And less explicitly: What do cyberfeminist engagements with technoscientific discourses look like? Volume includes examples (and analysis)of work by female techno-artists creatively interpreting the intersections between desire, the body, science and machines. Notable essays by Margaret Morse and Sara Diamond on virtual gender, and by Lisa Cartwright and Evelynn Hammonds on imaging technologies and the production of racial and gendered norms. Together these artists and theorists consider “the complex territory” between pleasure/desire and fear/suspicion of technoscience and cyberculture from a number of feminist perspectives.