Bits of life
Subtitle: feminism at the intersections of media, bioscience, and technology
By: edited by Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke.
Contributors: Smelik, Anneke.; Lykke, Nina.
Series: In vivo; In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780295988092
Subjects: Feminist theory; Human reproductive technology; Information technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-207) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bits of life : an introduction / Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke; title: Feminist cultural studies of technoscience : portrait of an implosion / Nina Lykke; title: Roots and routes : the making of feminist cultural studies of technoscience / Maureen McNeil; title: "There are always more things going on than you thought!" methodologies as thinking technologies : interview with Donna Haraway / Nina Lykke, Randi Markussen, and Finn Olesen; title: Fluid ecologies : changing hormonal systems of embodied difference / Celia Roberts; title: Parenthood and kinship in IVF for humans and animals : on traveling bits of life in the age of genetics / Amade M'charek and Grietje Keller; title: From Rambo sperm to egg queens : two versions of Lennart Nilsson's film on human reproduction / Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke; title: Screening the gene : Hollywood cinema and the new genetic imaginary / Jackie Stacey; title: Mylifebits : the computer as memory machine / José van Dijck; title: Tunnel vision : inner, outer, and virtual space in science fiction films and medical documentaries / Anneke Smelik; title: What if Frankenstein('s monster) was a girl? reproduction and subjectivity in the digital age / Jenny Sundén; title: Living in a posthumanist material world : lessons from Schrödinger's cat / Karen Barad; title: The politics of life as bios/zoe / Rosi Braidotti.