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

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posted on 2018-11-30, 19:10 authored by Deboleena Roy
"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.
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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Emory University as part of the TOME initiative

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Publication date

2018

ISBN (Print - Cloth)

9780295744094

ISBN (Print - Paper)

9780295744100

Imprint Name

Feminist Technosciences

Publisher Name

University of Washington Press

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