Cyborg or Goddess: How Women Academics in Science and Technology View their Relationship to Technology

Authors

  • Ulrike Kissmann Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/96

Keywords:

Biografie, Naturverhältnisse, Technik, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

The authors of this book have chosen examples from their individual life stories to illustrate the interpretative character of technology. These stories show how technology mediates social order and meaning and how technology thus contributes to negotiate gendered boundaries and other boundaries, for example, boundaries between “familiar” and “foreign” or “normal” and “abnormal”. The auto/biographies in this book are on the one hand influenced by technology; at the same time, the authors demonstrate that they are also able to transgress these boundaries. Using Haraway’s image of the cyborg (1985) the authors analyse the representation of the self within the interconnections of the social and the technical.

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Published

2001-11-01

Issue

No. 5 (2001): Ost- und Westdeutschland

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2001 Ulrike Kissmann

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