Feminist Philosophy of Technology

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii What Is Feminist Philosophy of Technology? A Critical Overview and a Plea for a Feminist Technoscientific Utopia (Janina Loh)....Pages 1-24 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 Technology Games/Gender Games. From Wittgenstein’s Toolbox and Language Games to Gendered Robots and Biased Artificial Intelligence (Mark Coeckelbergh)....Pages 27-38 Programming Power and the Power of Programming: An Analysis of Racialised and Gendered Sex Robots (Jenny Carla Moran)....Pages 39-57 Bypassing the Uncanny Valley: Sex Robots and Robot Sex Beyond Mimicry (Tanja Kubes)....Pages 59-73 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 From Design to Data Handling. Why mHealth Needs a Feminist Perspective (Tereza Hendl, Bianca Jansky, Verina Wild)....Pages 77-103 Ectogenesis as the Dilution of Sex or the End of Females? (Jordi Vallverdú, Sarah Boix)....Pages 105-122 Becoming with Technology—the Reconfiguration of Age in the Development of a Digital Memory Training (Cordula Endter)....Pages 123-142 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 “The Origin of the New World”. On Elena Dorfman’s Deus (S)ex-Machina (Alexander Matthias Gerner)....Pages 145-166 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 Front Matter ....Pages 185-185 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 Feminist Post-Privacy? A Critique of the Transparency Society (Julia Valeska Schröder)....Pages 207-223 Making Genders: The Biotechnological and Legal Management of Identity (Mariana Córdoba)....Pages 225-243 Front Matter ....Pages 245-245 The Seeds of Violence. Ecofeminism, Technology, and Ecofeminist Philosophy of Technology (Gregory Morgan Swer)....Pages 247-263 The Sexual Continuum, a Diffractional Analysis, and Our Apparatuses of Investigation (Dominika Lisy)....Pages 265-285 “There It Is Again”. On Objects, Technologies, Science, and the Times (Rick Dolphijn)....Pages 287-298