Bits of life : feminism at the intersections of media, bioscience, and technology / edited by Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke.

Date:
[2008], ©2008
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Publication/Creation

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2008], ©2008.

Physical description

xix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-207) and index.

Contents

Bits of life : an introduction / Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke -- Feminist cultural studies of technoscience : portrait of an implosion / Nina Lykke -- Roots and routes : the making of feminist cultural studies of technoscience / Maureen McNeil -- "There are always more things going on than you thought!" methodologies as thinking technologies : interview with Donna Haraway / Nina Lykke, Randi Markussen, and Finn Olesen -- Fluid ecologies : changing hormonal systems of embodied difference / Celia Roberts -- Parenthood and kinship in IVF for humans and animals : on traveling bits of life in the age of genetics / Amade M'charek and Grietje Keller -- From Rambo sperm to egg queens : two versions of Lennart Nilsson's film on human reproduction / Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke -- Screening the gene : Hollywood cinema and the new genetic imaginary / Jackie Stacey -- Mylifebits : the computer as memory machine / José van Dijck -- Tunnel vision : inner, outer, and virtual space in science fiction films and medical documentaries / Anneke Smelik -- What if Frankenstein('s monster) was a girl? reproduction and subjectivity in the digital age / Jenny Sundén -- Living in a posthumanist material world : lessons from Schrödinger's cat / Karen Barad -- The politics of life as bios/zoe / Rosi Braidotti.

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  • 9780295988092
  • 0295988096