What is the relationship between gender and science/technology? There are many: on the one hand, there are gendered differences in the workplace - who researches exploding stars, designs software, or gives massages to tech workers in Silicon Valley? There is also the very gendering of scientific knowledge and material technologies themselves. From microbes to artificial intelligence, to climate change, our world is inscribed with gendered categories and stereotypes. Furthermore, there are feminist ideas about how to change the world, to disrupt long-standing patterns of inequality of female-male, nature-culture, and subjectivity-objectivity relations. This course will provide a survey of the important literature in this field. It will help to foreground the gendered dimension underlying even supposedly neutral things, discourses, settings and institutions. Students will gain analytical skills that can be applied to any topic of interest where structural inequalities underlie claims of “neutrality” or “objectivity’.
- Dozent/in: Siri Lamoureaux