Knowledge as Resistance: The Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering

by Stevienna de Saille

Overview

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 and neglected episode of feminist history. Its findings will be relevant to scholars in science studies, gender and women's studies and social movements, as well as to anyone with an interest in reproductive technologies and the history of feminist activism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349707751
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/17/2020
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	313
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Stevienna de Saille is a Research Fellow in the Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman) at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Table of 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.