10 What If Frankenstein(‘s Monster) Was a Girl? Reproduction and Subjectivity in the Digital Age

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Bits of Life: An Introduction ix
5. PART 1 Histories and Genealogies
6. 1 Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience: Portrait of an Implosion 3
7. 2 Roots and Routes: The Making of Feminist Cultural Studies of Technoscience 16
8. 3 “There Are Always More Things Going On Than You Thought!” Methodologies as Thinking Technologies: Interview with Donna Haraway 32
9. PART 2 Reconfigured Bodies
10. 4 Fluid Ecologies: Changing Hormonal Systems of Embodied Difference 45
11. 5 Parenthood and Kinship in IVF for Humans and Animals: On Traveling Bits of Life in the Age of Genetics 61
12. 6 From Rambo Sperm to Egg Queens: Two Versions of Lennart Nilsson’s Film on Human Reproduction 79
13. 7 Screening the Gene: Hollywood Cinema and the Genetic Imaginary 94
14. PART 3 Remediated Bodies
15. 8 MyLifeBits: The Computer as Memory Machine 113
16. 9 Tunnel Vision: Inner, Outer, and Virtual Space in Science Fiction Films and Medical Documentaries 129
17. 10 What If Frankenstein(‘s Monster) Was a Girl? Reproduction and Subjectivity in the Digital Age 147
18. PART 4 Philosophies of Life
19. 11 Living in a Posthumanist Material World: Lessons from Schrödinger’s Cat 165
20. 12 The Politics of Life as Bios /Zoe 177
21. Bibliography 193
22. Contributors 209
23. Index 212