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Bits of Life : Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: In Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science SeriesPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295990330
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bits of LifeDDC classification:
  • 305.4201
LOC classification:
  • HQ1190 -- .B573 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Bits of Life: An Introduction -- Part 1: Histories and Genealogies -- 1. Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience: Portrait of an Implosion -- 2. Roots and Routes: The Making of Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience -- 3. "There Are Always More Things Going On Than You Thought!": Methodologies as Thinking Technologies: Interview with Donna Haraway -- Part 2: Reconfigured Bodies -- 4. Fluid Ecologies: Changing Hormonal Systems of Embodied Difference -- 5. Parenthood and Kinship in IVF for Humans and Animals: On Traveling Bits of Life in the Age of Genetics -- 6. From Rambo Sperm to Egg Queens: Two Versions of Lennart Nilsson's Film on Human Reproduction -- 7. Screening the Gene: Hollywood Cinema and the Genetic Imaginary -- Part 3: Remediated Bodies -- 8. MyLifeBits: The Computer as Memory Machine -- 9. Tunnel Vision: Inner, Outer, and Virtual Space in Science Fiction Films and Medical Documentaries -- 10. What If Frankenstein('s Monster) Was a Girl?: Reproduction and Subjectivity in the Digital Age -- Part 4: Philosophies of Life -- 11. Living in a Posthumanist Material World: Lessons from Schrödinger's Cat -- 12. The Politics of Life as Bios/Zoe -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Bits of Life: An Introduction -- Part 1: Histories and Genealogies -- 1. Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience: Portrait of an Implosion -- 2. Roots and Routes: The Making of Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience -- 3. "There Are Always More Things Going On Than You Thought!": Methodologies as Thinking Technologies: Interview with Donna Haraway -- Part 2: Reconfigured Bodies -- 4. Fluid Ecologies: Changing Hormonal Systems of Embodied Difference -- 5. Parenthood and Kinship in IVF for Humans and Animals: On Traveling Bits of Life in the Age of Genetics -- 6. From Rambo Sperm to Egg Queens: Two Versions of Lennart Nilsson's Film on Human Reproduction -- 7. Screening the Gene: Hollywood Cinema and the Genetic Imaginary -- Part 3: Remediated Bodies -- 8. MyLifeBits: The Computer as Memory Machine -- 9. Tunnel Vision: Inner, Outer, and Virtual Space in Science Fiction Films and Medical Documentaries -- 10. What If Frankenstein('s Monster) Was a Girl?: Reproduction and Subjectivity in the Digital Age -- Part 4: Philosophies of Life -- 11. Living in a Posthumanist Material World: Lessons from Schrödinger's Cat -- 12. The Politics of Life as Bios/Zoe -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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