Class Readings and Materials

Books

Estelle Freedman, No Turning Back

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

Articles and Excerpts: See Documents section

Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” (from Inside/Out)

Teresa deLauretis, “The Technology of Gender” (from The Technology of Gender: Essays on Film, Theory, and Fiction)

Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” (from Simians, Cyborgs, and Women)

J. Jack Halberstam, “Automating Gender: Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine” (from Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology)

Anne Fausto-Sterling, “Dueling Dualisms” from Sexing the Body

Sue V. Rosser, “Using the Lenses of Feminist Theories to Focus on Women and Technology” from Women, Gender, and Technology

Siobhan Somerville, “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body” (from Queering the Colorline)

Films

Sleeper

Alien

Multimedia Materials

FemTechNet Dialogues (posted to the FemTechNet Commons)

Additional readings, including timely articles from blogs, newspapers, and online magazines, may be assigned.  They will be linked on the course site.