Copula: Sexual Technologies, Reproductive Powers (Suny Series in Gender Theory) - Couverture souple

Ferrell, Robyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791467546 ISBN 13 : 9780791467541

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2006

Synopsis

Explores the conceptual schema underlying our understanding of reproductive technologies.

How will the ability to manipulate human reproduction change our social world and the relationship between the sexes? Taking an explicitly interdisciplinary approach to gender and reproductive technology, Robyn Ferrell examines this question in the light of feminist theories of sexual equality and sexual difference, arguing that technology itself can be seen as a kind of reproduction. Invoking a concept of reproduction that understands it as generic, Ferrell asserts that in any reproduction, something is produced of a kind that was there before and yet that is also new. Technology is therefore generically reproductive, since it produces new matter of the same kind. In addition to key figures in French feminism, Ferrell draws from psychoanalysis and contemporary continental thinkers ranging from Heidegger to Haraway.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robyn Ferrell is Associate Professor in Creative Writing in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne and the author of several books, including Genres of Philosophy and Passion in Theory: Conceptions of Freud and Lacan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791467546
• ISBN 13: 9780791467541
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 190
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• Personne responsable: non disponible