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Technologies

Technologies

WSQ: Spring/Summer 2009
June 2009
Trade Paperback · 320 Pages
$25.00 U.S. · $27.50 CAN
ISBN 9781558616004
The Feminist Press at CUNY

 

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Description

Technologies considers how medical, digital, and communication technologies are transforming the way we understand gender, motherhood, the body, and feminism. Including articles that investigate fertility clinic websites, Google identities, and the HPV vaccine, Technologies presents research from the social sciences, cultural studies, history, science, and education.

Karen Throsby is an associate professor in sociology at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. She is the author of When IVF Fails.

Sarah Hodges is an associate professor in history at the University of Warwick and the author of Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce.

About the Authors

Karen Throsby is an associate professor in sociology at the University of Warwick. She was awarded her PhD from the Gender Institute, London School of Economics. Her research focuses on the complex relationships between gender, technology, and the body. She is the author of When IVF Fails: Feminism, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality. Sarah Hodges is an associate professor in history at the University of Warwick. She received her PhD in history from the University of Chicago. Her interests include modern South Asian history, gender studies, anthropology, and the history of science, technology, and medicine. She is the author of Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce: Birth Control in South India, 1920–1940.