ISBN:
9780415638548
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (299 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Series Statement:
Contemporary Sociological Perspectives
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender Circuits, 2e : Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈P〉The new edition of 〈EM〉Gender Circuits〈/EM〉 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. 〈/P〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Biomedical Technology as Mediator between Physical and Mental LifeInformation 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
Description / Table of Contents:
How Technology Has Shaped Gender and Gender NonconformityTechnologies 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Narrative Identity, Discourses-in-Practice and Discursive PracticesStorying 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 3 New Biomedical Technologies, New Scripts, New GendersNew 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Review: Sociological Analyses of Gender and Technology
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
