Web Papers 1

Below find a catalogue of the first set of webpapers emerging from Computer Science/English/Film Studies/Gender &Sexuality 257, a course offered at Bryn Mawr College. Students are writing here about what issues seem most critical to them in the intersection of gender and technology.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available for each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you…what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who–exploring the internet–might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about the shape and sound of the technologies of gender?

• a Barbie girl in a Barbie world
  Simran Singh
• Achieving a Market
  Mista Jay
• Across Contested Territory: the transsexual subject in medical and radical discourse
  J S
• Are Technological Advancements Reinforcing the Gender Binary?
  Guinevere
• Asexuality and the Technology of Sex
  Alexandra Funk
• Candidates and Websites: Gender Expression Online
  Cat Durante
• Constructing Virgins: How Technologies De-construct and Re-construct Gendered Notions of Virginity
• cosmetic and reconstructive surgery and gender roles
  cosmetic and reconstructive surgery and gender roles
• Cosmetic Surgery and Constructing Femininty
• Cyborg Culture Shock?
• Eye Opening: Western Culture and the Popularity of Double Eyelid Surgery Among Asian Women
  Anna Dela Cruz
• From Rubens to Twiggy: Changing the Language of Bodies
  Ruth Goodlaxson
• Gender and Technology in Amish and Saudi Arabian Cultures
  Marwa
• Gender Math
• Gender Perceptions through Television
  prp
• Gendered Spaces
  Aline
• Glitter Kids and Orange Lipstick: Gender Ambiguity in Rock-and-Roll
  Melanie Bruchet
• How the Internet Turned me into a Girl (I Think)
• How We Create Gender: the Roles in Which Technology Shapes Us
  Baibh Cathba
• Hymenoplasty and Constructions of Gender
  AH
• Hymenoplasty in Northern India
  shikha
• It’s Not That Simple: The Gendering of Computers
  Cleo Calbot
• Maybe She’s Born With It…
  Carrie Soto
• Nature vs. Nurture: And where the individual fits in…
• One Small Step for Trans, One Giant Eek for Mankind
  Maddie
• Paper: The Impact Technology has on Gender for Intersex children
  Ashley
• Proprietary Technologies and the Ownership of the Body
  Rebecca Church
• Technology and the re-construction of Gender
  Ashley
• Technology vs. Gender on Screen
  Farhat Rahman
• The bra as a gender(ed?) tool
  Michelle Bennett
• The GDR and the doping of young Girls
  Hillary Cleveland
• The Mainstream Media’s “Representative” Mean
  SarahLeia
• The Unfamiliar in New Interpretations of Gender
  Solomon Lutze
• Thinking Outside the Frame
  Hannah Mueller
• Trans()
  Natasha
• Transforming Gender Identity through the Internet
  Kalyn Schofield
• Transsexuality: The Conflict between Individual Empowerment and Systemic Disempowerment
  Melinda C.
• Undressing Gender
  ZY
• Virtue, Virginity and Marriage: The Triple Play of Control
  Georgia \”George\” Fayne
• “To anyone who has chosen invisibility as an imperfect solution to personal dissonance.” -Sandy Stone
  aaclh