Do technologies have sex? Until recently popular stereotypes have
associated technology strongly with masculinity. But in the new
digital age, wired women are populating cyberspace and embracing
technological change. The cyborg figure has fired the feminist
imagination as an icon of women's power and freedom from biological
sex difference. What does the new global information society -
interconnected, genetically engineered, digitally designed,
remotely controlled - hold for women? While most commentators
assert that everything in the digital future will be different, how
true is this for the social relations of gender?
This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific
advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship.
However, it is feminist politics rather than the technologies
themselves that make the difference. "TechnoFeminism" fuses the
visionary insights of cyberfeminism with a materialist analysis of
the sexual politics of technology. Drawing on new perspectives in
postmodernism, feminist theory and science and technology studies,
Judy Wajcman explores the ways in which technologies are gendered
both in their design and use. At the same time, she shows how our
very subjectivity is shaped by the technoscientific culture of the
world we inhabit. This book provides a lucid, accessible and
succinct interpretation of some of the most complex and urgent
debates of our times.
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