Friday, July 08, 2005

my ongoing list of things to think about, read and refer to

Following the work of Michel Foucault's "discourse of the body"

1. Technologies of the Gendered Body by Anne Balsamo. Chapter One.
2. The Body and Society by Bryan S. Turner.
3. The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century Edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.
4. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction by Emily Martin.

Other STS Related:
Joan Roughgarden. Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
Annemarie Mol. The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice.The Australian Journal of Anthropology. August, 2004. (Edited by?) Dorothy H. Broom
"The men's bibliography" (A comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities, gender, and sexualities (15th edition)) Compiled by Michael Flood.
STS wiki: http://en.stswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
A page of STS links: http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/mds/stslinks.html

Things i need to figure out my own definitions for:
TECHNOLOGY - a tool, procedure, method, technique, applied material, or state of knowledge and development developed by humans in order to control Nature/their surroundings
TECHNOLOGICAL ARTIFACT - products of an economy and forces for economic growth which affect and are affected by socio-cultural phenomena. they are also a means to develop and project military power.

Note: if you decide to add your own sweet two cents here, I will be grateful, but only if you do so in the interest of kindly teaching and/or sharing knowledge. Thank you.