Gender, Sex, and Tech!

An Intersectional Feminist Guide
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-88961-635-6
Verlag: Canadian Scholars

Buch, Englisch, 315 Seiten, Paperback

In this timely collection, gender, sex, and technology are explored through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens. Gender, Sex, and Tech! provides insight into the ways that technology affects, and is affected by, cultural perceptions of gender and sex. Through an examination of a range of past and present issues, the text highlights our relationships to technology and illustrates how gendered relations are shaped and transformed through social and technological innovations.Contributors bring to the fore feminist, decolonizing, and anti-racist methods to examine our everyday uses of technology, from the mundane to the surreal to the playful to the devastating. Original research and scholarship is skillfully grounded in real-world scenarios like revenge pornography, gender bias in artificial intelligence, menstrual tracking, online dating, and the COVID-19 pandemic, inviting students to take a closer look at technological transformations and their impact on gendered lived experience and to consider how the benefits of technology are inequitably shared within society.Centring Canadian scholars and Canadian perspectives without losing sight of the broader global connection, Gender, Sex, and Tech! is bursting with timely and of-the-moment content, making this collection a must-read for courses focused on gender and technology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements
- A Brief Introduction to Sex and Tech: From Everyday to Extraordinary - Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa SmithPart I: Disrupt
- Chapter 1: Birth Control Pills, Baby Bottles, and Bikes: Dancing on the Edge of Social Transformation - Lisa Smith
- Chapter 2: Flowing with Tech: Bringing an Intersectional Lens to Menstruation Technologies - Lauren Friesen and Ana Brito
- Chapter 3: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence, Student Sexuality, and Post-Secondary Institutions - Shaina McHardyPart II: Connect
- Chapter 4: Neither Crone nor Cougar: Navigating Intimacy and Ageism on Dating Apps - Treena Orchard
- Chapter 5: "I'm Not Your Fantasy": Sexual Racism, Racial Fetishization, and the Exploitation of Racialized Men Who Have Sex with Men - Christopher Dietzel
- Chapter 6: Smartphones and Committed Relationships: Navigating the Intersection of Sex, Gender, and Other Social Variables - Noorin ManjiPart III: Surveillance
- Chapter 7: A Harem of Computers and a Mummery of Bondage - Jennifer Jill Fellows
- Chapter 8: Empowerment through Participatory Surveillance? Menstrual and Fertility Self-Tracking Apps as Postfeminist Biopedagogies - Jessica Polzer, Anna Sui, Kelly Ge, Laura Cayen
- Chapter 9: Artificial Unintelligence: How "Smart" and AI Technologies Perpetuate Bias and Systemic Discrimination - Sahar RazaPart IV: Bodies
- Chapter 10: Gatekeeping "Authentic" Gender: The Somatechnics of Transition Surgery and "Male Enhancement" - Jennifer Hites-Thomas
- Chapter 11: "So, You Wanna Live Forever?" Representations of Disability, Gender, and Technology in Cyberpunk 2077 - Tamara Banbury and Kelly FritschPart V: Reclaim
- Chapter 12: Holding Space for Future Matriarchs: Digital Platforms for Resurging Solidarity - Amber Brown and Angela Knowles
- Chapter 13: The Ethics of Care and Online Teaching: Personal Reflections on Pandemic Post-Secondary Instruction - Kira Tomsons
- Chapter 14: Zines and Ezines as Holistic Technologies: DIY Feminism in the Transnational Classroom - Jaime YardConclusion: Coming Home to the Future: Start, Pause, Repeat … - Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith
- Contributor Biographies

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Jill Fellows is a Faculty Member in the Philosophy Department at Douglas College. Her current research interests are in social epistemology and the metaphysics of personhood. Lisa Smith is a Faculty Member in the Department of Sociology at Douglas College. Her research expertise lies in sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence and the post-secondary context, and public and community-engaged sociology.