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" . . . discusses the complex connections between gender and technology . . . an intriguing and enlightening book, the latest in an outstanding . . . series by Indiana University Press." —Bruce Hilton, Scripps Howard News Service How does technology influence gender roles? From personal computers and cyberspace to artificial wombs and sex reassignment surgery, technology has opened up the possibility that sex roles as well as the gendered notions we have of human identity are subject to radical change. This engaging anthology examines long-standing stereotypical associations of men with technology and women with nature and assesses the impact of technologies that have necessarily blurred distinctions between the sexes and altered traditional views of gender.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Copyright, Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Introduction: the Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology
  2. pp. 1-12
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  1. Part I: Inventing Histories Gender and Technological Development
  1. 1. Women Hold Up Two-Thirds of the Sky: Notes for a Revised History of Technology
  2. pp. 17-32
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  1. 2. The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
  2. pp. 33-49
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  1. 3. The Culture of the Telephone
  2. pp. 50-74
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  1. 4. Femininity and the Electric car
  2. pp. 75-88
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  1. 5. Does Technology Work for Women Too?
  2. pp. 89-94
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  1. Part II: (mis?)conceptions Morality and Gender Politics in Reproductive Technology
  1. 6. Bioethics and Fatherhood
  2. pp. 98-106
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  1. 7. Artificial Insemination: Who's Responsible?
  2. pp. 107-115
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  1. 8. Sex Preselection: Eugenics for Everyone?
  2. pp. 116-142
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  1. 9. the Ethics of Sex Preselection
  2. pp. 143-156
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  1. 10. Surrogate Motherhood: the Challenge for Feminists
  2. pp. 157-170
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  1. Part III: (re)locating Fetuses Technology and New Body Politics
  1. 11. Male Pregnancy
  2. pp. 175-183
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  1. 12. Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis
  2. pp. 184-200
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  1. 13. New Reproductive Technology: Some Implications for the Abortion Issue
  2. pp. 201-214
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  1. 14. Opinion in the Matter of Davis V. Davis
  2. pp. 215-236
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  1. Part IV: Body Building the (re)construction of Sex and Sexuality
  1. 15. the Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants
  2. pp. 241-260
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  1. 16. Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies
  2. pp. 261-285
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  1. 17. Facing the Dilemma
  2. pp. 286-305
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  1. 18. Sappho by Surgery: the Transsexually Constructed Lesbian-Feminist
  2. pp. 306-321
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  1. 19. the Empire Strikes Back: a Posttranssexual Manifesto
  2. pp. 322-341
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  1. 20. Reproductive Controls and Sexual Destiny
  2. pp. 342-360
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  1. Part V: (virtual?) Gender from Computer Culture to Cyberspace
  2. pp. 361-364
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  1. 21. Computational Reticence: Why Women Fear the Intimate Machine
  2. pp. 365-380
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  1. 22. Excluding Women from the Technologies of the Future? a Case Study Ofthe Culture of Computer Science
  2. pp. 381-394
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  1. 23. Tinysex and Gender Trouble
  2. pp. 395-416
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  1. 24. in Novel Conditions: the Cross-Dressing Psychiatrist
  2. pp. 417-430
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  1. Part VI: Our Machines/our Selves Gender and Cyborg Subjects
  2. pp. 431-433
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  1. 25. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
  2. pp. 434-467
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  1. 26. Automating Gender: Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine
  2. pp. 468-483
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  1. 27. The Pleasure of the Interface
  2. pp. 484-500
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 501-504
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 505-511
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