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Professor Martha
McCaughey Course Description: This course is a social study of both gender and technology. Beginning with the assumption that technologies are not gender neutral in their design or effects, we will examine both gender and technology as cultural and political categories which have no distinct definitions. Studying feminist academic research on technology and gender, we shall see how technology helps to form and distinguish the realm of the masculine and the feminine (through technological apparatuses that are demarcated for males vs. females), as well as how ideas about gender help form our views of technology. We will also examine how cultural notions of gender affect what kinds of technologies are produced and for what purposes. Finally, we will examine the impact of new technologies on contemporary gender arrangements, for instance the impact of medical sex-reassignment technologies and of in-vitro sex testing and selection. Through all of this, we will assess not only the impact of technology on gender and vice versa, but also the overall impact of feminist studies in STS. More information coming soon!
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