WOME-3213: Gender, Bodies & Technology

Readings

• Wajcman, J. (2010). Feminist Theories of Technology. Cambridge Journal of Economics. Vol 34(1). pgs. 142-153.
• Rose, N. (2001). The Politics of Life Itself. Theory, Culture & Society. Vol. 18(6). pgs. 1-30.
• Sawicki, J. (1999). “Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies”. In Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader. Price, J & Shildrick, M. (Eds.). Routledge: New York. pgs. 190-202.
• Lupton, D. (2003). “Feminisms and Medicine”. Medicine as Culture: Second Edition. SAGE: London. pgs. 142-172.
• Martin, E. (1987). “Medical Metaphors of Women’s Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause”. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Beacon Press: Boston. pgs. 27-53.
• Burnett, K. (2017). “Different Histories: Reproduction, Colonialism, and Treaty 7 Communities in Southern Alberta, 1880-1940”. In Abortion: History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgantaler. Stettner, S., Burnett, K. & Hay, T. (Eds). UBC Press: Vancouver. pgs. 35-54.
• Rinaldi, J. (2017). “Morgantaler and the Technological Production of Embodiment”. In Abortion: History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgantaler. Stettner, S., Burnett, K. & Hay, T. (Eds). UBC Press: Vancouver. pgs. 197-216.
• Weiss, G. (1997). “Sex-Selective Abortion: A Relational Approach”. In Feminist Ethics & Social Policy. DiQuinzio, P. & Young, I.M. (Eds.). Indiana University Press: Bloomington. pgs. 274-290.
• Gimenez, M. (1991). The Mode of Reproduction in Transition: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of the Effects of Reproductive Technologies. Gender and Society. Vol. 5(3). pgs. 334-350.
• Roberts, D. (2017). “From Norplant to the Contraceptive Vaccine: The New Frontier of Population Control.” Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty. Random House: New York. pgs.104-150.
• McFadden, C. (2017). “Reproductively Privileged: Critical White Feminism and Reproductive Justice Theory.” In Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations
• Granzow, K. (2007). De-Constructing ‘Choice’: The Social Imperative and Women’s Use of the Birth Control Pill. Culture, Health & Sexuality. Vol. 9(1). pgs. 43-54.
• Tone, A. (2002). Making Room for Rubbers: Gender, Technology, and Birth Control Before the Pill. History and Technology. Vol. 18(1). pgs. 51-76.
• Youssef, H. (1993). The History of the Condom. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Vol. 86. pgs. 226-228.
• Kimport, K. (2018). Talking About Male Body-Based Contraceptives: The Counseling Visit and the Feminization of Contraception. Social Science & Medicine. Vol. 201. pgs. 44-50.
• Maines, R. (1999). “The Job Nobody Wanted”. The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. pgs. 1-20.
• Maines, R. (1999). “Revising the Androcentric Model”. The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. pgs. 111-124.
• Vostral, S. (2008). “Menstrual Hygiene: A Techno-Social History.” Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology. Lexington Books: Plymouth. pgs. 1-8.
• Vostral, S. (2008). “Technology and Passing.” Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology. Lexington Books: Plymouth. pgs. 9-20.
• Martin, E. (1987). “Medical Metaphors of Women’s Bodies: Birth”. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Beacon Press: Boston. pgs. 54-67.
• Roberston, J. (2014). Egg Freezing and Egg Banking: Empowerment and Alienation in Assisted Reproduction. Journal of Law and the Biosciences. pgs. 113-136.
• Pollack, A. (2003). Complicating Power in High-Tech Reproduction: Narratives of Anonymous Paid Egg Donors. Journal of Medical Humanities. Vol. 24(3/4). pgs. 241-263.
• Cattapan, A., et al. (2014). Breaking the Ice: Young Feminist Scholars of Reproductive Politics Reflect on Egg Freezing. The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Vol. 7(2). pgs. 236-247.
• Press, N., et al. (1998). “Provisional Normalcy and ‘Perfect Babies’: Pregnant Women’s Attitudes Toward Disability in the Context of Prenatal Testing.” In Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power and Technological Innovation.
• Simonstein, F. (2019). Gene Editing, Enhancing and Women’s Role. Science and Engineering Ethics. Vol. 25. pgs. 1007-1016.
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• Egg Freezing, Career Women & the Future of Ferti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2erhhIupZF4 ↗
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