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Refracting through Technologies - Bodies, Medical Technologies and Norms (Paperback)
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Refracting through Technologies - Bodies, Medical Technologies and Norms (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
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This book explores the 'material-discursive entanglement' of how we
both make the world with our words and how the materiality of the
world forces us to put words on it. Beginning with the conundrum of
how the things that make up our world are both shaped by and shape
the ways in which we talk about, engage with and think about them,
the author accepts the entanglement and then works backwards, using
the metaphor of refraction to help articulate the structures,
values and norms that discursively shape our world and our selves
in it. Through a series of empirical examples taken from work on
medical technologies and the body, Refracting through Technologies
shows how researchers and designers can use material things -
technologies - to refract discourses and articulate the concerns
and voices producing them. Refraction as a metaphor is thus
revealed to be an important concept, enabling scholars to apply
analytical work to political concerns about the technological
world. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, science
and technology studies, philosophy and design with interests in
technoscience, feminist thought and social theory.
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