Molecular Feminisms Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab

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Full Title:: Molecular Feminisms Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab / Deboleena Roy
Series Titles:: Feminist technosciences

Table of Contents:: Introduction: stolonic strategies -- Biophilosophies of becoming -- Microphysiologies of desire -- Bacterial lives: sex, gender, and the lust for writing -- Should feminists clone? And if so, how? -- In vitro incubations -- Conclusion: science in our backyards.
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:: ""Should feminists clone?" "What do neurons think about?" "How can we learn from bacterial writing?" These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and intrepid feminist theorist Deboleena Roy, who takes seriously the capabilities of lab "objects"--Bacteria and other human, nonhuman, organic, and inorganic actants--in order to understand processes of becoming. In Molecular Feminisms, Roy investigates science as feminism at the lab bench, engaging in an interdisciplinary conversation between molecular biology, Deleuzian philosophies, posthumanism, and postcolonial and decolonial studies. She brings insights from feminist theory together with lessons learned from bacteria, subcloning, and synthetic biology, arguing that renewed interest in matter and materiality must be accompanied by a feminist rethinking of scientific research methods and techniques.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (xv, 265 pages).
Use and Reproduction:: CC BY-NC-ND