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?
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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