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

Awards:   Long-listed for Ludwik Fleck Prize 2020 Long-listed for Ludwik Fleck Prize 2020 (United States)
Author:   Deboleena Roy
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
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9780295744100


Pages:   282
Publication Date:   20 November 2018
Format:   Paperback
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  • Long-listed for Ludwik Fleck Prize 2020
  • Long-listed for Ludwik Fleck Prize 2020 (United States)

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""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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Author:   Deboleena Roy
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780295744100


ISBN 10:   0295744103
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   20 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"""A timely and welcome intervention is Deboleena Roy's book, Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab. Thinking about the connections and potential created between molecular biology and feminism, and philosophy and science, Roy thinks with philosophy [and] situates her work, which she names molecular feminisms, in the ontological and ethical reorientations made possible by thinking matter, ethics, and knowledge-making practices together."" * Hypatia Reviews Online *"


A timely and welcome intervention is Deboleena Roy's book, Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab. Thinking about the connections and potential created between molecular biology and feminism, and philosophy and science, Roy thinks with philosophy [and] situates her work, which she names molecular feminisms, in the ontological and ethical reorientations made possible by thinking matter, ethics, and knowledge-making practices together. * Hypatia Reviews Online *


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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.

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