Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age, by Eve Shapiro. New York, NY/London: Routledge, 2010. $135.00 hardcover/$31.95 paper. ISBN 9780415996952 (hardcover)/ 9780415996969 (paper).

摘要

Eve Shapiro's Gender Circuits is a lucid introduction to the increasingly complex relationship between information and biomedical technologies, gendered bodies, and social identities. It has an exceptionally coherent and clear structure. The preview thoroughly provides the reader with key vocabulary and concepts that are employed frequently in the subsequent parts of the book. The main set of theoretical arguments is enriched throughout the book with textboxes, case studies (on tattooing and masculinity, the 19th-century "Bloomers," transgender activism, and the treatment of transgender individuals), references to mass culture, film and popular magazines, episodes from the social history of technology and gender, and Shapiro's own childhood memories, family history, activism, and career.