Queer Feminist Science Studies

Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and science and technology studies (STS). The essays here “queer”—or denaturalize and make strange—ideas that are taken for granted in both areas of study. Reimagining the meanings of and relations among queer and feminist theories and a wide range of scientific disciplines, contributors foster new critical and creative knowledge-projects that attend to shifting and uneven operations of power, privilege, and dispossession, while also highlighting potentialities for uncertainty, subversion, transformation, and play.

Theoretically and rhetorically powerful, these essays also take seriously the materiality of “natural” objects and phenomena: bones, voles, chromosomes, medical records and more all help substantiate answers to questions such as, What is sex? How are race, gender, sexuality, and other systems of differences co-constituted? The foundational essays and new writings collected here offer a generative resource for students and scholars alike, demonstrating the ingenuity and dynamism of queer feminist scholarship.

Cyd Cipolla is associate faculty in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Her essays have appeared in the Journal of Medical Humanities and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.Gupta Kristina :

Kristina Gupta is associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Medical Entanglements: Rethinking Feminist Debates about Healthcare (Rutgers, 2019) and the coeditor of Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (Washington, 2017).Rubin David A. :

David A. Rubin is assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals, including Feminist Formations; Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; and Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.Willey Angela :

Angela Willey is an assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her work has appeared in Feminist Studies, Signs, Journal of Gender Studies, and Sexualities, and she has contributed to volumes on monogamy, new materialism, the science of difference, and the global history of sexual science. She is author of Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology (Duke University Press, 2016).

Cyd Cipolla is associate faculty in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Kristina Gupta is assistant professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University. David A. Rubin is assistant professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida. Angela Willey is assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology.

"This much-needed collection highlights feminist science studies as queer theory while also foregrounding analyses of race, nation, and U.S. centrism. A perfect reader for teaching."—Jasbir Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability

"A superb collection of essays organized around queer feminist science studies, a constellation of fields that is traceable to both particular genealogies as well as emergent ones."—David Serlin, author of Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America

"This reader brings together new and underutilized essays that develop queer feminist approaches to science."—Lisa Weasel, coeditor of Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation

"A lively collection of essays, Queer Feminist Science Studies is a brilliant pedagogical resource and a handbook for world-making in the key of social justice."—Jennifer Terry, author of Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-first-century America