The gender of things : how epistemic and technological objects become gendered

著者

edited by Maria Rentetzi

Routledge, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index

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 / M. F. Gonzalez Rodriguez
Part 2. Things as Artifacts
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