Molecular feminisms : biology, becomings, and life in the lab

Summary: ""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.

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ISBN: 9780295744117
ISBN: 9780295744100
ISBN: 9780295744094
ISBN: 0295744111
ISBN: 0295744103
ISBN: 029574409X
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 265 pages).
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Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

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General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.19 CatMonthString:july.19
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: stolonic strategies -- Biophilosophies of becoming -- Microphysiologies of desire -- Bacterial lives: sex, gender, and the lust for writing -- Should feminists clone? And if so, how? -- In vitro incubations -- Conclusion: science in our backyards.
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Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2018).