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This book presents a historicised account of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE). A coordinated effort during the 1980s and 1990s by an international group of women to create and disseminate feminist knowledge about the then-new field o...
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Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52727-1 |
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This book presents a historicised account of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE). A coordinated effort during the 1980s and 1990s by an international group of women to create and disseminate feminist knowledge about the then-new field of reproductive technologies. Bringing insights from science and technology studies together with social movements and feminist theory, it seeks to examine larger questions about knowledge and expertise in activist engagements with rapidly-developing technologies, as well as explore an important an |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XXI, 313 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781137527271 |
| CLC: | Q78 |
| Contents: | Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Part I Action And Reflection: A Story Of Finrrage In 28 Voices -- Chapter 2 Emergence -- Chapter 3 Expansion -- Chapter 4 Abeyance -- Part II Studying It Up: Finrrage As A Cognitive Praxis -- Chapter 5 Writing The Resistance -- Chapter 6 'The Finrrage Position' As A Cognitive Praxis -- Chapter 7 - Final Words -- Chapter 8. The Women Of Finrrage Interviewed For This Book. |