Copula : sexual technologies, reproductive powers / Robyn Ferrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferrell, Robyn, 1960-

Series:

SUNY series in gender theory.

SUNY series in gender theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Philosophy.

Sex role.

Feminist theory.

Motherhood--Philosophy.

Motherhood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How will the ability to manipulate human reproduction change our social world and the relationship between the sexes? Taking an explicitly interdisciplinary approach to gender and reproductive technology, Robyn Ferrell examines this question in the light of feminist theories of sexual equality and sexual difference, arguing that technology itself can be seen as a kind of reproduction. Invoking a concept of reproduction that understands it as generic, Ferrell asserts that in any reproduction, something is produced of a kind that was there before and yet that is also new. Technology is therefore generically reproductive, since it produces new matter of the same kind. In addition to key figures in French feminism, Ferrell draws from psychoanalysis and contemporary continental thinkers ranging from Heidegger to Haraway.

Contents:

The maternal in its natural habitat

Brave new world

Reproducing technology

Conceiving of feminism

Feminism is a kind of time

The lore of the father

The figure of the copula

The body as material event

The technology of genre.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index.

ISBN:

9780791481776

0791481778

9781429413534

1429413530

OCLC:

76813038