Gender Circuits Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age 2nd Edition by Eve Shapiro 9781134756582 1134756585

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ISBN 10: 1134756585
ISBN 13: 9781134756582
Author: Eve Shapiro

The new edition of Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies, and embodied identities, this book explores whether and how new technologies are reshaping what it means to be a gendered person in contemporary society.

Gender Circuits Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age 2nd Table of contents:

List of Figures
Preface
Preview: Gendered Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age
Making Sense of Human Diversity
Theories of Difference
Understanding the Embodied Self as a Social Product
Making Sense of Embodied Identity
How Social Scripts Shape Selves
Why Gender is a Good Vantage Point for Inquiry
Gender is a Social Endeavor
Gender as Socially Constructed but Meaningful in Our Lives
Accounting for Gender Variation in Society
The Impact of Challenging Gender Norms
A New World Order: Life in a Technological Age
Biomedical Technology as Mediator between Physical and Mental Life
Information Technology as Mediator between Physical and Mental Life
Investigating the Impact of New Technologies
Case Study: Focus on Tattooing and Masculinity
Chapter 1 A Social History of Technology and Gender
A Sociological Approach to Analyzing Gender and Technology
Making Sense of Technology
A Brief History of Technology
Challenging Technological Progressivism
Theorizing Technology
Technology as Social
Technology and the Individual
Theorizing Gender and Technology Together
How Technology Has Shaped Gender and Gender Nonconformity
Technologies of Sex and Gender Formation
Technologies of Gender Conformity
Technologies of Gender Nonconformity
New Technologies, New Genders
Engaging in Sociological Analysis
Case Study: Focus on Bloomers and Nineteenth Century Womanhood
Case Study: Focus on Beauty and Twenty-First Century Womanhood
Chapter 2 Information Technologies and Gendered Identity Work
Exploring Virtual Worlds
The Internet as New Technology
Evaluating Information Technologies
Identity Work in Cyberspace
Bridging Online and Offline Identities
Narrative Identity, Discourses-in-Practice and Discursive Practices
Storying Ourselves into Being
Re-storying Ourselves into New Ways of Being
Narrative Identity Online
The Impact of Online Activity on the Self
Individual and Collective Identity Development Online
Collective Identity Work Online: Negotiating Social Scripts
Reproducing and Rewriting Social Scripts
Reproducing Inequality Online
Navigating Gendered Identities and Bodies Online
Case Study: Focus on Trans* Organizing
Case Study: Focus on Social Networking and the Self
Chapter 3 New Biomedical Technologies, New Scripts, New Genders
New Body Technologies
Technologies and the Body
The Social Body
Technology and Body Work
Somatechnics and Social Norms
Gendered Selves, Gendered Bodies
Biomedical Technologies and Gendered and Raced Bodies
Somatechnologies and Hyper-Normative Gender Scripts
A Sociological Perspective on the Meaning of Body Work
Somatechnologies and New Gender Scripts
The Complexities of Body Work
Case Study: Reproduction and the Gender of Medicine
Case Study: Sex, Gender, and their Diversity
Review: Sociological Analyses of Gender and Technology
The Impact of Contemporary Biomedical and Information Technologies
A Cyborg Society
A Sociological Analysis of Technology and Gender
What a Sociological Approach Illuminates
New Areas of Inquiry
Making Sense of the Technologically Saturated World Around Us
Case Study of Transgender Pregnancy and Thomas Beatie
Making Sense of Transgender Pregnancy
Gender Circuits: Looking Forward
References
Index

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