Feminist Philosophy of Technology

1. Front Matter

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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

3. Technologies: Robots

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Technology Games/Gender Games. From Wittgenstein’s Toolbox and Language Games to Gendered Robots and Biased Artificial Intelligence

      • Mark Coeckelbergh

      Pages 27-38

   3. Programming Power and the Power of Programming: An Analysis of Racialised and Gendered Sex Robots

      • Jenny Carla Moran

      Pages 39-57

   4. Bypassing the Uncanny Valley: Sex Robots and Robot Sex Beyond Mimicry

      • Tanja Kubes

      Pages 59-73

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

6. Fields: Politics, Society, and the Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. The Technological Retro-Revolution of Gender. In a Rising Post-Human and Post-Western World, It Is Time to Rediscuss the Politics of the Female Body

      • Roland Benedikter, Mirjam Gruber

      Pages 187-205

   3. Feminist Post-Privacy? A Critique of the Transparency Society

      • Julia Valeska Schröder

      Pages 207-223

   4. Making Genders: The Biotechnological and Legal Management of Identity

      • Mariana Córdoba

      Pages 225-243

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

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.

• Feminism
• Philosophy of Technology
• Robots
• Engineering
• Reproduction
• Gender

• Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

  Janina Loh, Mark Coeckelbergh

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).

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