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taught by Ann Kaloski and Julie Palmer, Centre for Women's Studies, autumn term 2005.

ongoing bibliography

check out the wiki at < http://cyborg.wikispaces.com/ >

Anne Balsamo, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke UP, 1996). Sample pages available on Amazon.com. JBM

David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy (eds) The Cybercultures Reader (Routledge, 2000)

Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan, Nearly Roadkill (High Risk Books/ Serpent's Tail, 1996). An 'erotic adventure' on and off line that mixes the politics of power with sexualised and multi-gendered communication. Web site < http://www.tootallblondes.com/KatePages/roadkill_reviews.htm > CWS

Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows (eds) Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment (Sage, 1995)

Chris Hables Gray (ed) The Cyborg Handbook. (Routledge, 1995)

Diane Greco Cyborg : Engineering the Body Electric (Watertown, MA : Eastgate Systems, 1995) disk and manual. JBM

Donna Haraway Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™ (Routledge, 1997)

________ Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature(Free Association Books, 1991)

________ The Haraway Reader (Routledge, 2004)

________ and Thyrza Goodeve How Like a Leaf: An Interview with Donna Haraway (Routledge, 1999) (available from JP)

________ The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People and Significant Otherness (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003) (available from JP)

Sarah Kember Photography, New Technologies and Subjectivity (Manchester University Press, 1998) (esp. chapter 5) (available from JP)

Ann Kaloski 'Bisexuals Making Out with Cyborgs' Journal of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Identity 2(1), 1997: 47-64.

Gill Kirkup, Linda Janes, Kath Woodward & Fona Hovenden (eds) The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader (Routledge, 2000)

Nina Lykke and Rosi Braidotti. (eds) Between Monsters, Godesses and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine and Cyberspace (Zed Books, 1996)

Esperanza Miyake 'My is that Cyborg a Little bit Queer?' Journal of International Women's Studies 5(2) 2004. < http://www.bridgew.edu/soas/jiws/Mar04/ >

Marge Piercy He, She and It (Fawcett Books, 1991)

Sadie Plant Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture (Doubleday, 1997). Here Plant explores some of the ideas introduced in 'Weaving Women' in more depth. Beautifully written and highly recommended.

Chela Sandoval 'New Sciences: Cyborg Feminism and the Methodology of the Oppressed' in Jenny Wolmark Cybersexualities(Edinburgh University Press, 2000)

Lucy Tatman 'I'd rather be a sinner than a cyborg' in The European Journal of Women's Studies 10(1): 51-64 (2003). Available as an e-journal. Tatman asks: 'Upon which Christian theological metaphors and models in Donna Haraway's understanding of 'cyborg' ontologically dependent, and how and why might it matter?'

Sue Thomas Hello World: Travels in Virtuality (Raw Nerve, 2004)

Amy Thompson, Virtual Girl (Ace Books, 1993) A fabulous tale of cyborgs, transgender, sentience and power. This is currently out of print, but AK has a few personal copies she will leave in the Centre for you to borrow.

Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon and Schuster: 1995) Seminal and very readable analyis of subjectivity and bodies online. JBM & CWS

Border Crossings at http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/bordercrossings/

see also bibliographies of other Wired Women's Studies modules < http://www.york.ac.uk/teaching/cws/wws/modules.html >

Any queries? Contact Ann Kaloski or Julie Palmer