Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 07:53:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: bhaatasari <gajjala+-AT-pitt.edu>
Subject: technoculture and subaltern women ?


Michael Menser and Stanley Aronowitz (in their book "techno-science and 
cyber-culture) write:


	" Culture, Science and technology, although distinct specific
	  levels, have been and continue to be inextricably bound to
	  one another in such a fashion that each actually emerges 
	  *into the other*, laying lines of contact and support. These 
	  relations involve a kind of complexity which prohibits us from 
		claiming that any one of the three is distinctly
		prior, primary, or fundamental to one of the others. 
		Various kinds of relations ensue (and are possible): 
		technology shapes culture; science epistemologically grounds 
		technology;science as an epistemology presupposes the 
		technological; (techno)culture produces (techno)science; 
		culture is always technological but not always scientific 
		and so on. Furthermore, science often legitimates one 
		cultural practice over another as in the normative 
		approach to physiology in which science 
		distinguishes/legitimiates what is "natural" and 
		prescribes corrective therapy for what it deems "innatural" 

(Menser and Aronowitz, 1996).


in relation to the quote above - and view technology/science as 
inextricable from culture.... how do you think hegemonic techno-culture 
affects the miliue of the "subaltern woman"?

when i use the phrase "subaltern women", I mean women who are 
situated within the hegemonic discourse/material-relations (as is 
everyone...) but do not have the access to enough cultural or material 
capital to be able to use/subvert technologies of power (here i use the term 
"technologies" in the sense that Foucault uses it) so that they might  
feel empowered in some way....


Radhika 

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