Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Bechdel Test, Hysterectomy
21 Feb 2015
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Willis, kress: motherhood"s matrix: tiny issues: nanotechnology. Reference to an anometer (billionth of a metre) talking of a machine that is that small; In future nanotech will allow us to take off the boxing gloves . Future of production: saying goodbye to large factories and the start of another revolution in terms of labour and production. This is what the 2 sisters go after she looks beautiful now after injection, 12th generation and is now going to die controversy between 2 sciences: male science: women"s bodies. Gender language; indicates ownership of women equality not feminism. Med sci dominated by men (especially focussed on women); so female ways of healing and curing aren"t acknowledged - we know more famous male doctors than female. Hysterectomy: greek-loose wombs when women are hysterical and the womb detached and floated to her neck males responded with surgery; taking out uterus recently done in india in large scale.
