Looking at Science, Looking at You! : The Feminist Re-visions of Nature(Brain and Genes)

• Main Author: Åsberg, Cecilia
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus 2009
• Subjects: visual culture; visual sociology; visual studies; feminist visual culture; gender studies; feminist science studies; the scientific imagination; cultural imageries; Aesthetics; Estetik; Film; Filmvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap; Gender studies; Genus
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-66375; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:91-87792-49-4

Vision has often been a central concern of feminist studies of science, medicine and technology. In cultural or social feminist analysis, the male gaze and the ways in which technoscience accommodates, and in effect organizes the watching of women, has been an important part of the feminist interrogation of the gender and power relations that produce the subjects and the objects of science. This attention is due to the intimate, and power-saturated, merge of processes of seeing and processes of knowing. Inherent in the notion of vision, there is always a politics to ways of seeing, ordering and observing, of organising the knowledge of the world. Historically, this can be exemplified by the eighteen-century Swedish “father” of biological classification, Linnaeus. Taking a leap away from Christian assumptions, Linnaeus placed human beings in a taxonomic order of nature together with other animals. === <p>ISBN 91-87792-49-4 not valid for this book.</p>