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Feminist Philosophy of Technology

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Editors:
  1. Janina Loh

    1. Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

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  2. Mark Coeckelbergh

    1. Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

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  • First work on the subject of feminist philosophy of technology
  • Contemporary and interdisciplinary topics
  • Combines feminist theories with modern technologies (and the corresponding disciplines)

Part of the book series: Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie (TPAHT, volume 2)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. What Is Feminist Philosophy of Technology? A Critical Overview and a Plea for a Feminist Technoscientific Utopia

    • Janina Loh
    Pages 1-24

  4. Technologies: Reproduction and Health Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. From Design to Data Handling. Why mHealth Needs a Feminist Perspective

      • Tereza Hendl, Bianca Jansky, Verina Wild
      Pages 77-103

    3. Ectogenesis as the Dilution of Sex or the End of Females?

      • Jordi Vallverdú, Sarah Boix
      Pages 105-122

    4. Becoming with Technology—the Reconfiguration of Age in the Development of a Digital Memory Training

      • Cordula Endter
      Pages 123-142

  5. Fields: Art and Applied Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. “The Origin of the New World”. On Elena Dorfman’s Deus (S)ex-Machina

      • Alexander Matthias Gerner
      Pages 145-166

    3. Gender Factors and Feminist Values in Living Labs

      • Michael Ahmadi, Anne Weibert, Victoria Wenzelmann, Tanja Ertl, Dave Randall, Peter Tolmie et al.
      Pages 167-183

  7. Perspectives: From Ecofeminism to New Materialist Feminism and Critical Posthumanism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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    2. The Seeds of Violence. Ecofeminism, Technology, and Ecofeminist Philosophy of Technology

      • Gregory Morgan Swer
      Pages 247-263

    3. The Sexual Continuum, a Diffractional Analysis, and Our Apparatuses of Investigation

      • Dominika Lisy
      Pages 265-285
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About this book

There has been little attention to feminism and gender issues in mainstream philosophy of technology and vice versa. Since the beginning of the so-called »second wave feminism« (in the middle of the 20th century), there has been a growing awareness of the urgency of a critical reflection of technology and science within feminist discourse. But feminist thinkers have not consistently interpreted technology and science as emancipative and liberating for the feminist movement. Because technological development is mostly embedded in social, political, and economic systems that are patriarchally hierarchized, many feminists criticized the structures of dominance, marginalization and oppression inherent in numerous technologies. Therefore, the question of defining and ascribing responsibility in technics and science is essential for this anthology – regarding for instance the technological transformation of labor, the life in the information society, and the relationship between humans and machines.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Janina Loh, Mark Coeckelbergh

About the editors

Dr. Janina Loh (née Sombetzki) is university assistant (Post-Doc) in the field of philosophy of technology and media at the University of Vienna.

Prof. Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna’s Philosophy Department as well as President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Feminist Philosophy of Technology

  • Editors: Janina Loh, Mark Coeckelbergh

  • Series Title: Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04967-4

  • Publisher: J.B. Metzler Stuttgart

  • eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-476-04966-7Published: 30 January 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-476-04967-4Published: 31 December 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2524-5902

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-5910

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 298

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Feminism

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