Creatures of Prometheus: Gender and the Politics of Technology

by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

Do human beings become creatures of the technology they create? Is gender an artifact of the work performed by such manufactured things? Drawing on a broad variety of literary and philosophical sources, including Homer's Iliad, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, accounts of the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, and recent scholarship in feminist, postmodern, and political theory, this impressive book offers strikingly original ways for readers to think...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847685640
• ISBN13: 9780847685646
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"