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Feminist Technosciences
Feminist Technosciences seeks to publish emerging, intersectional, cutting-edge feminist work. The series will foreground insights from queer studies, critical race studies, disability studies, animal studies, postcolonial theory, and other critical approaches that reframe and reignite longstanding questions in feminist science and technology studies.
Series editors: Rebecca Herzig and Banu Subramaniam
Please send book proposals to: Larin McLaughlin
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Hacking the Underground
Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System
"Minding the gap" while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to embark...
ISBN: 9780295751948
more detailsQueer Data Studies
Data, perilous and powerful, is both a worldmaking and a dismantling force. The collection of data about queer lives and bodies, the consequences of data analysis for queer subjects, and considerations of privacy and consent...
ISBN: 9780295751979
more detailsUnderflows
Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice
Rivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Wölfle Hazard, their future vitality requires centering the values of justice, sovereignty, and dynamism. At the...
ISBN: 9780295749754
more detailsBad Dog
Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice
Fifty-plus years of media fearmongering coupled with targeted breed bans have produced what could be called "America’s Most Wanted" dog: the pit bull. However, at the turn of the twenty-first century, competing narratives began to...
ISBN: 9780295748023
more detailsHoly Science
The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of comingled worlds where humans, animals, and gods transform each...
ISBN: 9780295745596
more detailsMolecular Feminisms
Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab
"Should feminists clone?" "What do neurons think about?" "How can we learn from bacterial writing?" These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and intrepid feminist theorist Deboleena Roy, who takes seriously...
ISBN: 9780295744100
more detailsGender before Birth
Sex Selection in a Transnational Context
In the mid-1990s, the international community pronounced prenatal sex selection via abortion an "act of violence against women" and "unethical." At the same time, new developments in reproductive technology in the United States led to...
ISBN: 9780295999210
more detailsQueer Feminist Science Studies
A Reader
Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and science and technology studies (STS). The essays here "queer"—or denaturalize and...
ISBN: 9780295742588
more detailsReinventing Hoodia
Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa
Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global...
ISBN: 9780295742182
more detailsFiguring the Population Bomb
Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic "facts" that created a mathematical panic about a looming population explosion. This narrative was popularized in the 1970s in Paul Ehrlich’s best-selling book The Population...
ISBN: 9780295999104
more detailsRisky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy
Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance
Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements—including the political economies of cinema;...
ISBN: 9780295742496
more detailsBotany of Empire
Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism
Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields as disparate as queer studies, Indigenous studies, and the biological sciences to...
ISBN: 9780295752464
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