Contents
Acknowledgements vii
1 I woke up one morning and discovered that I was doing feminist
cultural studies of science and technology 1
2 Feminist cultural studies of science and technology: roots and
routes 11
PART I
Making heroes 25
3 Newton as national hero 27
4 Making twentieth-century scientific heroes 44
PART II
Telling stories 69
5 New reproductive technologies: stories of dreams and broken
promises 71
6 Telling tales of reproduction and technoscience 94
PART III
Witnessing spectacle 111
7 National and international spectacle: Gulf War I 113
8 Techno-tourism in Florida: American dreams, technology and
feminism 132
9 Conclusion 147
Notes 153
Bibliography 166
Index 182