Bodies of Technology: Women's Involvement with Reproductive MedicineAnn Rudinow Saetnan, Nelly Oudshoorn, Marta Stefania Maria Kirejczyk This work is based on a concern for women's health and autonomy and on the premise that technology and society mutually shape one another. A basic question is one of cultural appropriation. Do technologies take on different shapes, different practices, and have different impacts as they spread from one place to another? By juxtaposing a number of culturally and historically contextualized studies of similar technologies, the editors demonstrate that although technologies globalize by spreading among cultures, they are also localized by the cultures they encounter. |
Contents
Do Users Matter? | 90 |
Representations of Masculinities in Discourses | 123 |
Early Testing of the Contraceptive Pill | 146 |
Assisted | 239 |
Regulating Reproduction | 254 |
Thirteen Womens Narratives of Pregnancy Ultrasound and Self | 331 |
Technoscience Ethnoscience | 355 |
Greek and Canadian Womens | 384 |
Situating Fetoscopy within Medical Literature | 410 |
Contributors | 445 |
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