TechnoFeminism

Judy Wajcman is Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and a Visiting Centennial Professor in the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics

• Introduction: Feminist Utopia or Dystopia?. 1. Male Designs on Technology.From Access to Equity.Science as Ideology.Technology as Patriarchal.Sex, Class and Technology.2. Technoscience Reconfigured.Beyond Technological Determinism.From Gender-Blind to Gender Aware.Combining Feminist and Technology Studies.3. Virtual Gender.Networked Community.Cyberfeminism: ‘The clitoris is a direct line to the matrtix’.Performing Gender in Cyberspace.Technology as Freedom.4. The Cyborg Solution.Embracing Science and Technology.From Man of Science to FemaleMan©.OncoMouseTM: Technologising Life and Reprogramming Nature.Send in the Cyborgs.5. Metaphor and Materiality.Changing Technologies, Changing Subjectivities.Towards Technofeminism.Sociotechincal Practices: Expertise and Agency

'Draws on a range of feminist perspectives, including the liberal and radical perspectives, to aid the analysis and to suggest fruitful ways forward for feminism.'Gender, Work & Organization