| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: What is technology? How do we think about technology in relationship to history? What does a feminist analysis bring to technology studies? | |
| 2 | History of Gendered Technology, Household Technologies |
Barber, Elizabeth Wayland. "Preface", "Introduction", and "A Tradition With a Reason." In Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times. Norton, 1994, pp. 11–41. Bray, Francesca. "Gender and Technology." Annual Reviews Anthropology 36 (2007): 37–53. Wajcman, Judy. "From Women and Technology to Gendered Technoscience." Information, Communication & Society 10, no. 3 (2007): 287–98. Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. "The 'Industrial Revolution' in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century." Technology and Culture 17, no. 1 (1976): 1–23. |
| Special Session | Readings and Paper |
Faulkner, Wendy. "The Power and the Pleasure? A Research Agenda for 'Making Gender Stick' to Engineers." Science, Technology, & Human Values 25, no. 1 (2000): 87–119 Kelan, Elisabeth. "Tools and Toys: Communicating gendered positions towards technology." Information, Communication & Society 10, no. 3 (2007): 358–83. Wajcman, Judy. "The Feminization of Work in the Information Age." In Women, Gender, and Technology. Edited by Johnson, Fox and Rosser. University of Illinois Press, 2006, pp. 80–97. ISBN: 9780252073366. [Preview with Google Books] |
| 3 | Gender and Biomedical Technologies |
Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Free Association Books, 1991, pp. 149–81. ISBN: 9781853431388. Parens, Erik. "Thinking About Surgically Shaping Children." In Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. 23–30. ISBN: 9780801890901. Hausman, Bernice. "Introduction." In Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender. Duke University Press, 1995, pp. 1–19. ISBN: 9780822316923. [Preview with Google Books] Turkle, Sherry. "Tinysex and Gender Trouble." In Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 210–32. ISBN: 9780684833484. Dull, Diana, and Candace West. "Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender." Social Problems 38, no. 1 (1991): 54–70. |
| 4 | Surgical Interventions |
Sciolino, Elaine, and Souad Mekhennet. "In Europe, Debate Over Islam and Virginity," New York Times, June 11, 2008. Dull, Diana, and Candace West. "Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender." Social Problems 38, no. 1 (1991): 54–70. Bañales, Victoria. ""The Face Value of Dreams": Gender, Race, Class, and the Politics of Cosmetic Surgery." Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation. Edited by Neferti X. M. Tadiar and Angela Y. Davis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 131–52. ISBN: 9781403965332. |
| 5 | Library Session: Doing Research |
Layne, Linda. "Introduction." In Feminist Technology. Edited by Linda Layne, Sharra Vostral, & Kate Boyer. University of Illinois Press, 2010, pp. 1–35. ISBN: 9780252077203. Johnson, Deborah. "Sorting out the Question of Feminist Technology." In Feminist Technology. Edited by Linda Layne, Sharra Vostral, & Kate Boyer. University of Illinois Press, 2010, pp. 36–54. ISBN: 9780252077203. Vostral, Sharra L. "Tampons." In Feminist Technology. Edited by Linda Layne, Sharra Vostral, & Kate Boyer. University of Illinois Press, 2010, pp. 136–53. ISBN: 9780252077203. Boyer, Kate, and Maia Boswell-Penc. "Breast Pumps." In Feminist Technology. Edited by Linda Layne, Sharra Vostral, & Kate Boyer. University of Illinois Press, 2010, pp. 119–35. ISBN: 9780252077203. |
| 6 | Reproductive Technologies |
Murphy, Julien S. "Is Pregnancy Necessary?" In Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology. Edited by Patrick D. Hopkins. Indiana University Press, 1998, pp. 184–200. ISBN: 9780253212306. [Preview with Google Books] Woodward, Kathleen. "From Virtual Cyborgs to Biological Time Bombs." In Cybersexualities. Edited by Wolmark. Edinburg University Press, 1999. |
| 7 | Gender, Technology, and Representation of Indigenous Knowledge |
Appleton, Fernandez, Hill, and Quiroz. "Gender and Indigenous Knowledge." In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader. Edited by Sandra Harding. Duke University Press Books, 2011. ISBN: 9780822349570. Shapshay, Sandra, ed. "Lifting the Genetic Veil of Ignorance: Is There Anything Really Unjust About Gattacan Society?" In Bioethics at the Movies. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, pp. 87–101. ISBN: 9780801890789. Matrix, Sidney Eve. "GATTACA, Gender and Genoism." In Cyberpop: Digital Lifestyles and Commodity Culture. Routledge, pp. 85–102. ISBN: 9780415649018. Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. Scholastic Press, 2010. ISBN: 9788184771695. |
| 8 | Ecofeminism, Technology and Development |
Wallis, Victor. "Vision and Strategy: Questioning the Subsistence Perspective." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 17, no. 4 (2006): 38–43. Mies, Maria. "Questioning Needs: A Rejoinder to Victor Wallis." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 17, no. 4 (2006): 44–7. Mies, Maria, and Joel Kovel. "An Interview with Maria Mies." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 15, no. 4 (2004): 41–51. Shiva, Vandana. "Bioprospecting as Sophisticated Biopiracy." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32, no. 2 (2007): 323–31. Isla, Ana. "An Ecofeminist Perspective on Biopiracy in Latin America." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32, no. 2 (2007). |
| 9 | Surveillance, Cell Phones, and the Sex Trade |
Andrijasevic, Rutvica. "Beautiful Dead Bodies: Gender, Migration and Representation in Anti-Trafficking Campaigns." Feminist Review 86 (2007): 24–44. Qu, Hong. "Social Media and the Boston Bombings: When Citizens and Journalists Cover the Same Story." Nieman Journalism Lab, April 17, 2013. Gray, Mitchell. "Urban Surveillance and Panopticism: Will We Recognize the Facial Recognition Society?" Surveillance & Society 1, no. 3 (2003): 314–30. Hoffman, Jan. "A Girl's Nude Photo, and Altered Lives," New York Times, March 26, 2011. |
| 10 | Alone Together | Turkle, Sherry. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Basic Books, 2012. ISBN: 9780465031467. |
| 11 | Mobile Technology, Networks, and the "Connected Presence" of Gaming/Telephony |
Ito, Mizuko. "Intimate Visual Co-Presence." (PDF) Licoppe, Christian. "Connected' Presence: The Emergence of a New Repertoire for Managing Social Relationships in a Changing Communication Technoscape." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 22 (2004): 135–56. Schroeder, Ralph. "Being There Together and the Future of Connected Presence." Presence 15, no. 4 (2006): 438–54. |
| 12 | Globalization & Technology of Militarization |
Cohn, Carol. "Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 12, no. 4 (1987): 687–718. Enloe, Cynthia. Excerpt from Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives. University of California Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780520220713. Silver, David, and Alice Marwick, eds. "Internet Studies in Times of Terror." In Critical Cyberculture Studies. New York University Press, 2006, pp. 47–54. ISBN: 9780814740248. |
