Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab

“Should feminists clone?” “What do neurons think about?” “How can we learn from bacterial writing?” These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and intrepid feminist theorist Deboleena Roy, who takes seriously the capabilities of lab “objects”—bacteria and other human, nonhuman, organic, and inorganic actants—in order to understand processes of becoming.

In Molecular Feminisms, Roy investigates science as feminism at the lab bench, engaging in an interdisciplinary conversation between molecular biology, Deleuzian philosophies, posthumanism, and postcolonial and decolonial studies. She brings insights from feminist theory together with lessons learned from bacteria, subcloning, and synthetic biology, arguing that renewed interest in matter and materiality must be accompanied by a feminist rethinking of scientific research methods and techniques.

The open access edition of Molecular Feminisms is available thanks to a TOME grant from Emory University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

DOI 10.6069/j163-3c90

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Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab

“Should feminists clone?” “What do neurons think about?” “How can we learn from bacterial writing?” These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and intrepid feminist theorist Deboleena Roy, who takes seriously the capabilities of lab “objects”—bacteria and other human, nonhuman, organic, and inorganic actants—in order to understand processes of becoming.

In Molecular Feminisms, Roy investigates science as feminism at the lab bench, engaging in an interdisciplinary conversation between molecular biology, Deleuzian philosophies, posthumanism, and postcolonial and decolonial studies. She brings insights from feminist theory together with lessons learned from bacteria, subcloning, and synthetic biology, arguing that renewed interest in matter and materiality must be accompanied by a feminist rethinking of scientific research methods and techniques.

The open access edition of Molecular Feminisms is available thanks to a TOME grant from Emory University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

DOI 10.6069/j163-3c90

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Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab

Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab

by Deboleena Roy
Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab

Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab

by Deboleena Roy

Overview

“Should feminists clone?” “What do neurons think about?” “How can we learn from bacterial writing?” These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and intrepid feminist theorist Deboleena Roy, who takes seriously the capabilities of lab “objects”—bacteria and other human, nonhuman, organic, and inorganic actants—in order to understand processes of becoming.

In Molecular Feminisms, Roy investigates science as feminism at the lab bench, engaging in an interdisciplinary conversation between molecular biology, Deleuzian philosophies, posthumanism, and postcolonial and decolonial studies. She brings insights from feminist theory together with lessons learned from bacteria, subcloning, and synthetic biology, arguing that renewed interest in matter and materiality must be accompanied by a feminist rethinking of scientific research methods and techniques.

The open access edition of Molecular Feminisms is available thanks to a TOME grant from Emory University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

DOI 10.6069/j163-3c90

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780295744117
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 11/20/2018
Series: Feminist Technosciences
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 282
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Deboleena Roy is associate professor and chair of the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and holds a joint appointment in the Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program at Emory University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Stolonic Strategies 3

1 Biophilosophies of Becoming 33

2 Microphysiologies of Desire 57

3 Bacterial Lives: Sex, Gender, and the Lust for Writing 90

4 Should Feminists Clone? And If So, How? 128

5 In Vitro Incubations 160

Conclusion: Science in Our Backyards 202

Glossary 207

Notes 213

Bibliography 231

Index 255

What People are Saying About This

Michelle Murphy

"What does feminist science for the twenty-first century look like? Drawing together molecular biology practices with feminist theory, Roy brilliantly shows us the way with her materialist approach to cloning, estrogen receptors, neurons, and grass stolons. This book is bound to be a classic in feminist technoscience studies."

Alexis Shotwell

"Roy tracks her formation as a feminist theorist in coproduction with her formation as a scientist. Molecular Feminisms makes an important contribution to the vibrant discussions in postcolonial science studies."

Margaret McCarthy

"Employing the stolonic growth of grass as a strategy for connectedness and the expansion of thought, Roy engages and enlightens the reader as to how feminism informs molecular biology and vice versa."

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

"Molecular Feminisms is a vital book, in every sense. It is a lively and important account that thinks biology otherwise, in ethnographically rigorous ways. At a political moment when fighting for science is as urgent as critiquing its reductionisms, Deboleena Roy provokes us into thinking about what a feminist stance towards, and praxis of, the life sciences might look like."

Elizabeth Grosz

"Reconfiguring a more creative and mutually beneficial interaction between the sciences and the humanities is an immensely important task and Molecular Feminisms provides an excellent and accessible beginning to this significant long-term project."

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