Creatures of Prometheus

Do human beings become creatures of the technology they create? Is gender an artifact of the work performed by such manufactured things? Drawing on a broad variety of literary and philosophical sources including Homer's Iliad Mary Shelley's Frankenstein accounts of the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl and recent scholarship in feminist postmodern and political theory this impressive book offers strikingly original ways for readers to think about technology gender identity culture the environment politics and the ways women and men struggle to make sense of the gifts of Prometheus. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory environmental thought and gender cultural and literary studies.