Nelly Oudshoorn

Broschiertes Buch

The Male Pill

A Biography of a Technology in the Making

Beschreibung

Unravels the social and cultural work involved in developing contraceptives for men and explains how technologies that conflict with hegemonic masculinity have a hard time coming into existence. This work also documents how the World Health Organization took the lead in investigating male contraceptives by coordinating worldwide research network.

Autor

Nelly Oudshoorn is Professor of Gender and Technology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. She is the author of Beyond the Natural Body: An Archaeology of Sex Hormones and coeditor of Bodies of Technology: Women’s Involvement with Reproductive Medicine and How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 149mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331957
• ISBN-10: 0822331950
• Artikelnr.: 21987015