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Knowledge as Resistance

The Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering

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Authors:
  1. Stevienna de Saille

    1. Institute for the Study of the Human, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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  • Explores the history of a global network of women resisting reproductive and genetic engineering
  • Discusses how feminist knowledge was created and disseminated in the past
  • Examines larger questions of activist engagement with rapidly developing technology using the feminist organisation FINRRAGE as a case study

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Stevienna de Saille
    Pages 1-25

  3. Action and Reflection: A Story of FINRRAGE in 28 Voices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Emergence

      • Stevienna de Saille
      Pages 29-67

    3. Expansion

      • Stevienna de Saille
      Pages 69-132

    4. Abeyance

      • Stevienna de Saille
      Pages 133-177

  4. Studying It Up: The ‘FINRRAGE Position’ as a Cognitive Praxis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Demonstration in Publication

      • Stevienna de Saille
      Pages 181-220

    3. Knowledge as Resistance

      • Stevienna de Saille
      Pages 221-255

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 257-313
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About this book

This book presents a historicised account of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE), a coordinated effort during the 1980s and 1990s by an international group of women to create and disseminate feminist knowledge about the then-new field of reproductive technologies. Bringing insights from science and technology studies together with social movements and feminist theory, it seeks to examine larger questions about knowledge and expertise in activist engagements with rapidly-developing technologies, as well as explore an important and neglected episode of feminist history. Its findings will be relevant to scholars in science studies, gender and women's studies and social movements, as well as to anyone with an interest in reproductive technologies and the history of feminist activism. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for the Study of the Human, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Stevienna de Saille

About the author

Stevienna de Saille is a Research Fellow in the Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman) at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knowledge as Resistance

  • Book Subtitle: The Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering

  • Authors: Stevienna de Saille

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52727-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52726-4Published: 14 December 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70775-1Published: 13 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52727-1Published: 27 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 313

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Knowledge - Discourse, Genetic Engineering, Gender Studies

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