BODIES OF TECHNOLOGY: WOMEN'S INVOLVEMENT WITH REPRODUCTIVE ME

Women, Gender, and Health

by Ann R. Saetnan, Nelly Oudshoorn, Marta Kirejczyk

This work is based on a concern for women's health and autonomy and on the premise that technology and society mutually shape one another. A basic question is one of cultural appropriation. Do technologies take on different shapes, different practices, and have different impacts as they spread from one place to another? By juxtaposing a number of culturally and historically contextualized studies of similar technologies, the editors demonstrate that although technologies globalize by spreading among cultures, they are also localized by the cultures they encounter.

461 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2000