Sex/Machine Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology [Paperback]

... discusses the complex connections between gender and technology... an intriguing and enlightening book, the latest in an outstanding... series by Indiana University Press. Bruce Hilton, Scripps Howard News Service

How does technology influence gender roles? From personal computers and cyberspace to artificial wombs and sex reassignment surgery, technology has opened up the possibility that sex roles as well as the gendered notions we have of human identity are subject to radical change. This engaging anthology examines long-standing stereotypical associations of men with technology and women with nature and assesses the impact of technologies that have necessarily blurred distinctions between the sexes and altered traditional views of gender.

Patrick D. Hopkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ripon College. He is co-editor (with Larry May and Robert Strikwerda) of Rethinking Masculinity: Philosophical Explorations in Light of Feminism. He is currently working on a book that is provisionally titled, Un/Natural: Nature, Culture, and Technology in Moral and Political Discourse.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology by Patrick D. Hopkins

Part 1: Inventing Histories: Gender and Technological Development
1. Women Hold Up Two-Thirds of the Sky: Notes for a Revised History of Technology Autumn Stanley
2. The Industrial Revolution in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century Ruth Schwartz Cowan
3. The Culture of the Telephone Mich?le Martin
4. Femininity and the Electric Car Virginia Scharff
5. Does Technology Work for Women Too? Lilia Oblepias-Ramos

Part 2: (Mis?)Conceptions: Morality and Gender Politics in Reproductive Technology
6. Bioethics and Fatherhood Daniel Callahan
7. Artificial Insemination: Who's Responsible? Ronald Munson
8. Sex Preselection: Eugenics for Everyone? Helen B. Holmes
9. The Ethics of Sex Preselectlľ