{"product_id":"the-gender-of-things-9781032459127","title":"The Gender of Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Gender of Things \u003c\/em\u003eis 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 thingsuch as a spacesuit, a humanoid robot, or a surgical instrumentbecome a gendered object?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 14 short chapters cover an original selection of things: from cosmeceuticals to early motor scooters, from Scrum boards to border walls, and 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 chapters 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 (STS), anthropology, the history of ergonomics, museum studies, the history of science, technology, and medicine but also the philosophy and sociology of technology and feminist \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This is a fascinating book on a completely original topic, the ways in which scientific and technological things, objects, processes, machines, techniques, come to acquire a gender in the context of their patriarchal (and feminist) uses. Things are made and used by us: how they are made and the ways in which they are used - by whom, with what effects – is a central but unexplored question in Science and Technology Studies. This collection brings new political and social perspectives and new questions to our understanding of what technological ‘things’ may become.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Elizabeth Grosz, Professor of Women's Studies and Literature, Duke University, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Certain things, such as ships, have long been gendered but these were thought of as exceptions to the general rule of neutrality: a thing is an \"it,\" not a \"she\" or a \"he.\" This eye-opening book shows how widespread the gendering of things actually is — and not just the things of everyday life but the things of science. From the sealing wax and string of the laboratory to genealogical databases, \u003ci\u003eThe Gender of Thing\u003c\/i\u003es reveals the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that the things of science and technology can be made masculine or feminine.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Lorraine Daston, Director emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Gendering Things\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaria Rentetzi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: Things in\/as Laboratories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSealing Wax and String\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonald L. Opitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eButter: Fat Lions and Dairy Girls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna Frasca-Rath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGendered Images of Chromosomes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaría Jesús Santesmases\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGodofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World: Phantoms, Radioiodine Uptake Tests, and the IAEA’s Standardization Projects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaria Rentetzi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Tell-Tale Heart: Multiple Ontologies of the First Human Donor Heart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnnerose Böhrer and Larissa Pfaller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColourful Minilabs: Cosmeceuticals at the Interface of Gender, Technology, and Knowledge Transfers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Things as Artefacts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGendered Mobility: Early Motor Scooting around 1920\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeike Weber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Make-up Kit from the National Air and Space Museum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleanor S. Armstrong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fan: Gendered Bodily Communication at the Intersection of Salon Semiotics, Fashion, Political Campaigning, and Menopause Relief\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnnette Keilhauer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGendering the Boundary Object: \"Sophia the Robot\" as Cyborg-Woman, Fashionista, Citizen, and Imagination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoger A. Søraa and Nienke Bruijning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnimating Machines, Alienating Women: Siri and Alexa as Affective Linguistic Labourers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSiri Lamoureaux and Alexa Hagerty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3: Things as Sites of Power\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDangerous Erections: Gender, Race, and the Engineering of Trump’s Border Wall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmy E. Slaton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaternity and Pedigree: How Academic Genealogical Databases Become Gendered\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRebecca M. Herzig\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs the Scrum Board Feminine?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStefan Sauer and Amelie Tihlarik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019067457879,"sku":"9781032459127","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032459127.jpg?v=1750779197","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-gender-of-things-9781032459127","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}