Sealing wax and string / Donald L. Opitz -- Butter : fat lions and dairy girls / Anna Frasca-Rath -- Gendered images of chromosomes / María Jesús Santesmases -- Godofredo and Françoise travel around the world : phantoms, radioiodine uptake tests, and the IAEA's standardization projects / Maria Rentetzi -- The tell-tale heart : multiple ontologies of the first human donor heart / Annerose Böhrer and Larissa Pfaller -- Colourful minilabs : cosmeceuticals at the interface of gender, technology, and knowledge transfers / Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez -- Gendered mobility : early motor scooting around 1920 / Heike Weber -- A make-up kit from the National Air and Space Museum / Eleanor S. Armstrong -- The fan : gendered bodily communication at the intersection of salon semiotics, fashion, political campaigning, and menopause relief / Annette Keilhauer -- Gendering the boundary object : "Sophia the Robot" as cyborg-woman, fashionista, citizen, and imagination / Roger A. Søraa and Nienke Bruijning -- Animating machines, alienating women : Siri and Alexa as affective linguistic labourers / Siri Lamoureaux and Alexa Hagerty -- Dangerous erections : gender, race, and the engineering of Trump's border wall / Amy E. Slaton -- Paternity and pedigree : how academic genealogical databases become gendered / Rebecca M. Herzig -- Is the scrum board feminine? / Stefan Sauer and Amelie Tihlarik.
Summary:
"The Gender of Things is a highly interdisciplinary book that explores the power relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, addressing a seemingly straightforward question: How does a thing-such as a spacesuit, a humanoid robot, or a surgical instrument-become a gendered object? These 14 short essays cover an original selection of "things": from cosmeceuticals to early motor scooters, from scrum boards to border walls, from robots to the human body and its parts. By historically examining how significance has been attached to specific things and how things were designed and produced, the essays reveal how the concept of gender has been embedded and finds expression in the material world of science and technology. With insights from science and technology studies, anthropology, the history of ergonomics, museum studies, the history of science, technology, and medicine but also the philosophy and sociology of technology and feminist new materialism, this collection reminds us that our material creations not only bear knowledge about our world. The Gender of Things will be of key interest to undergraduate and graduate students and research scholars of STS as well as Gender Studies"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.