Creatures of Prometheus
Gender and the Politics of Technology
Seiten
1997
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-8476-8565-3 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-8476-8565-3 (ISBN)
Drawing on a broad variety of literary and philosophical sources, the author offers students and scholars strikingly original ways to think about technology, gender identity, culture, the environment and politics.
Do human beings become creatures of the technology they create? Is gender an artifact of the work performed by such manufactured things? Drawing on a broad variety of literary and philosophical sources, including Homer's Iliad, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, accounts of the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, and recent scholarship in feminist, postmodern, and political theory, this impressive book offers strikingly original ways for readers to think about technology, gender identity, culture, the environment, politics, and the ways women and men struggle to make sense of the gifts of Prometheus. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, environmental thought, and gender, cultural, and literary studies.
Do human beings become creatures of the technology they create? Is gender an artifact of the work performed by such manufactured things? Drawing on a broad variety of literary and philosophical sources, including Homer's Iliad, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, accounts of the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, and recent scholarship in feminist, postmodern, and political theory, this impressive book offers strikingly original ways for readers to think about technology, gender identity, culture, the environment, politics, and the ways women and men struggle to make sense of the gifts of Prometheus. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, environmental thought, and gender, cultural, and literary studies.
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn is Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.11.1997 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 113 x 230 mm |
Gewicht | 467 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8476-8565-9 / 0847685659 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8476-8565-3 / 9780847685653 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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