Bits of Life ─ Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology

This title explores the fusing of biology and technology since World War II and its permeation into present everyday life. Smelik (visual culture, Radboud U. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Lykke (gender studies, Linkoeping U., Sweden) present international contributors discussing feminism and the intersection of media, bioscience, and technology, particularly exploring current reconfigurations of bodies and embodied subjects. The book is sectioned into four parts, histories and genealogies, reconfigured bodies, remediated bodies, and philosophies of life, and includes chapter topics such as feminist cultural studies of technoscience, Hollywood cinema and the genetic imaginary, reproduction and subjectivity in the digital age, and the computer as memory machine. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Anneke Smelik is professor of visual culture at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Nina Lykke is professor of gender studies, Linkoeping University, Sweden, and head of the Nordic Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies.