CYBORG LIVES?: WOMEN'S TECHNOBIOGRAPHIES

edited by Flis Henwood, Helen Kennedy, Nod Miller
cover designed by Lina Johansson and Pat Staples

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first published in 2001; 180 pages; paperback; ISBN 0-9536585-1-X; £10.00.
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Contents

Judy Wajcman: Foreword
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Flis Henwood, Gwyneth Hughes, Helen Kennedy, Nod Miller, Sally Wyatt
Introduction: Cyborg Lives in context: writing women’s technobiographies

SECTION 1: Encountering technology: Consumption, identity, and everyday life

Flis Henwood

In/different screening: contesting medical knowledge in an antenatal setting

Linda Leung
From set menu to all-you-can-eat: comparing representations of my ethnicity in broadcast and new media technologies

Jules Cassidy, Sally Wyatt
Plugging into the mother country

Sally Wyatt
Growing up in the belly of the beast

SECTION 2: Becoming technologists: on taking up (and making up) technological identities

Helen Kennedy
HTMK meets HTML: from technofraud to cyberchick

Gwyneth Hughes
Technology and Romance in the laboratory: reflections on being a 'normal' woman scientist

Linda Leung
The past lives of a cyborg: encountering 'space invaders ' from the 1980s to the 1990s

Nanda Bandyopadhyay
Technology, tradition and transition: the journey of a middle-class Indian woman

SECTION 3:Resisting the cyborg life?

Nod Miller
I'd rather be a goddess than a cyborg: technobiographical tales, from drains to divas