Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (Feminist Technosciences) by Cyd Cipolla


Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (Feminist Technosciences)
Title : Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (Feminist Technosciences)
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ISBN : 0295742577
ISBN-10 : 9780295742571
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 352
Publication : Published December 1, 2017

Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women's, gender, and sexuality studies and science and technology studies (STS). The essays here "queer"―or denaturalize and make strange―ideas that are taken for granted in both areas of study. Reimagining the meanings of and relations among queer and feminist theories and a wide range of scientific disciplines, contributors foster new critical and creative knowledge-projects that attend to shifting and uneven operations of power, privilege, and dispossession, while also highlighting potentialities for uncertainty, subversion, transformation, and play.

Theoretically and rhetorically powerful, these essays also take seriously the materiality of "natural" objects and bones, voles, chromosomes, medical records and more all help substantiate answers to questions such as, What is sex? How are race, gender, sexuality, and other systems of differences co-constituted? The foundational essays and new writings collected here offer a generative resource for students and scholars alike, demonstrating the ingenuity and dynamism of queer feminist scholarship.

Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (Feminist Technosciences) Reviews

  • Allison

    This book filled a requirement for knowledge and analysis that I knew I had, but thought could not be reached, and it incited my desire to continue research into queering science. Looking at science studies through an queer, open perception is essential for the future of science. Studies of medicine and biology, as well as more abstract studies of botany and zoology, need to move away from the generally-accepted, the Western standard of study. Western, colonized, male-oriented, unchanging systems of science study are how, in the past, we reached conclusions that ova, the qualitative and "reserved" nature of it, dictated how women should act, to speak nothing of women who did not possess ovaries. It's how hysteria was considered a real diagnosis, and a prescribed, involuntary stimulation was considered the treatment. The standard of science studies today needs to be reconsidered; "We've always done it this way" is no longer the right answer.
    This collection of essays taught me scientific methods of study and fact that had never occurred to me.
    I will treasure it moving forward in my exploration of biology and evolution.

  • Madi

    "Queer feminist sciences studies scholarship offers powerful examples of how to critique the normalizing and pathologizing tendencies of Western biomedicine and science, while also providing insights into how science and biomedicine might be reformed and/or (re)appropriated in order to better serve the interests of women, sexual minorities, gender-nonconforming people, and other historically marginalized groups."