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Title: Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Joseph Dumit, Jennifer Croissant, Sylvia Sensiper ISBN: 0-415-91604-6 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95

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Summary: Anthology of Feminism, Technoscience and Reproduction
Comment: Sixteen essays make a contribution to "cyborg anthropology" and "cyborg feminism." Volume considers human reproduction through the lens of an interrogation of the cyborg metaphor, its power, pleasure, promise, and threat. Section one essays discuss medico-technological interventions in conception and contraception including production of "technosemen." Section two includes essays by Emily Martin, Rayna Rapp and others, examining gestation and the use of medical imaging (ultrasound) and screening (amniocentesis) technologies to produce "normal" and "healthy" fetuses. Section three essays consider technobirth, focusing on the medical monitoring and management of the mother's body. Section four considers childrearing in a digital culture, including essay by Sherry Turkle on cyborg babies in a culture of "simulation." Exceptional introduction by David-Floyd and Dumit provides historical/theoretical overview of cyborg metaphor as quintessential postmodern myth and tool.

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