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This volume underlines the exigency of feminist philosophical reflections on the design, use, and understanding of emerging technologies and at the same time accentuates how emerging technologies can uniquely impact the shape of future feminist critique and intervention.
List of contents
Editors' Introduction
Mary L. Edwards and S. Orestis Palermos Part 1: Feminist Philosophy in the light of Emerging Technologies 1. Leaking Milk and Beating Hearts: Technological Immanence and the Maternal Body
EL Putnam 2. Feminism and Enhancement
Walter Veit and Heather Browning 3. Gender, Race, and Moral Enhancement
Emma C. Gordon 4. The Dangerous
Liaison Between Rape Culture and Information Technologies: Reality, Virtuality, and Responsibility in Cyber-rapes
Francesco Striano 5. Social Media, Digital Technologies, and the Valorization of Lack of Consent
Kelly Oliver 6. Two Dilemmas for Value-Sensitive Technological Design
Mona Simion 7. The Utopian Dimension of New Technologies: A Feminist Technophilosophical Approach to Sex and Gender
Valeria Venditti Part 2: Emerging Technologies in the light of Feminist Philosophy 8. The Person Behind the Digit: Objectification and Self-Objectification Online
S. Orestis Palermos 9. Technologies of Women's (Sexual) Humiliation
Dianna Taylor 10. When Sexual and Information Privacy Converge: The Case of Digital Dick Pics
Martha McCaughey and Jill Cermele 11. Understanding Incels as a Group
Mary L. Edwards 12. Influencing Corporealities: Social Media and its Impact on Gender Transition
Gen Eickers 13. "Computer Says No": Artificial Intelligence, Gender Bias, and Epistemic Injustice
Joel Walmsley
About the author
Mary L. Edwards is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. She is the author of
Sartre's Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others (2023) and her research interests include existential psychoanalysis, the phenomenology of social emotions, psychological oppression, and electronically mediated relations. She teaches modules on "Feminist Philosophy," "The Social Imagination," and "Other People."
S. Orestis Palermos is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina. Orestis specialises in epistemology, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, as well as in issues at the intersection of these fields. He is also a co-editor of
Extended Epistemology and
Socially Extended Epistemology.
