Technologies of the gendered body combines close readings of popular texts such as margaret atwoods novel the handmaids tale the movie pumping iron ii the women cyberpunk magazines and mass media with analyses of medical literature public policy documents and specific technological practices balsamo describes the ways in which certain biotechnologies are ideologically shaped by gender considerations and other beliefs about race physical abilities and economic and legal status. Technologies of the gendered body reading cyborg women technologies of the gendered body this book takes the process of reading the body into the fields at the forefront of culture the vast. This book takes the process of reading the body into the fields at the forefront of culture the vast spaces mapped by science and technology to show that the body in high tech is as gendered as ever. Anne balsamo technologies of the gendered body reading cyborg women claudia springer electronic eros bodies and desire in the postindustrial age j p telotte replications a robotic history of the science fiction film