Women, Black people, and other people of color were controlled in and through
technology in various ways, including biologically/medically. Use the Rusert (2019),
Nelson (2011), Jackson (2019) interview with Benjamin, Drucker (2019) or any class
materials to describe:
(a) What is meant by each type of biopower;
(b) Two forms of technologically derived biological knowledge;
(c) One way that each form of technology described in (b) can be used for harm or for
good.
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Materializing Gender through Contraceptive Technology in the United States, 1930s–1940s
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