Feminist technoscience is a transdisciplinary branch of science studies which emerged from decades of feminist critique on the way gender and other identity markers are entangled in the combined fields of science and technology.[1] The term technoscience, especially in regard to the field of feminist technoscience studies, seeks to remove the distinction between scientific research and development with applied applications of technology while assuming science is entwined with the common interests of society.[2] As a result, science is suggested to be held to the same level of political and ethical accountability as the technologies which develop from it.[1] Feminist technoscience studies continue to develop new theories on how politics of gender and other identity markers are interconnected to resulting processes of technical change, and power relations of the globalized, material world.[3]
Feminist technoscience focuses less on intrapersonal relationships between men and women, and more on broader issues concerning knowledge production and how bodies manifest and are acknowledged in societies.[4]
Feminist technoscience studies are inspired by social constructionist approaches to gender, sex, intersectionalities, and science, technology and society (STS). It can also be referred to as feminist science studies, feminist STS,[5] feminist cultural studies of science, feminist studies of science and technology, and gender and science.[1]
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- ^ a b c Åsberg, Cecilia; Lykke, Nina (5 November 2010). "Feminist technoscience studies". European Journal of Women's Studies. 17 (4): 299–305. doi:10.1177/1350506810377692. S2CID 146433213.
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- ^ Wajcman, Judy (June 2007). "From Women and Technology to Gendered Technoscience". Information, Communication & Society. 10 (3): 287–298. doi:10.1080/13691180701409770. S2CID 144375460.
- ^ Booth, Shirley (2010). Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Technology: Social Contexts and Cultural Contexts. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-61520-813-5.
- ^ Ford, Heather; Wajcman, Judy (August 2017). "'Anyone can edit', not everyone does: Wikipedia's infrastructure and the gender gap" (PDF). Social Studies of Science. 47 (4): 511–527. doi:10.1177/0306312717692172. PMID 28791929. S2CID 32835293.