Annette Burfoot
Professor
BAH (York), MES (York), D.Phil. (Sussex)
Sociology
成人大片 University
- Science & Technology Studies (reproductive technologies, genetic engineering, human anatomy and manufacture)
- Feminist Social Thought
- Visual Culture
A new project is underway: a graphic manuscript explaining civic action in the City of Kingston over development of the historic downtown. A long term study continues of the Busatti textile manufacturer in Anghiari Italy in terms of strategic branding amid socio-economic crises. A focal study of surrogate mothers鈥 experience in Canada has been reactivated following the pandemic.
Due to retirement plans, I am no longer accepting PhD students for supervision.
- science and technology studies
- feminist theories of sociology
- visual culture
- social theory
2022 Women and Reproductive Technologies: The Socio-Economic Development of Technologies Changing the World. London: Routledge. Open Access.
2020 with Heather Plyley, 鈥淔at Reclamation and Identity Management in the Canadian Context,鈥 in Bodywork in Canada: Critical Approaches to Embodied Experience.鈥 Edited by Valerie Zawilski. Toronto: Canadian Scholars.
2014 Visual Culture and Gender (Vols. I 鈥 IV). Editor. London: Routledge. 2014 鈥淩evisiting Mary O'Brien 鈥 Reproductive Consciousness and Liquid Maternity,鈥 Journal of Socialist Studies/ Etudes Socialistes 10(1) 174-190.
2011 鈥淔eminist Technoscience: A Solution to Theoretical Conundrums and the Wane of Feminist Politics?鈥 RFR/DRF 33:3 & 4, pp. 71-93. 2006 Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence. Co-edited with Susan Lord. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
2003 鈥淗uman remains: Identity politics in the face of biotechnology,鈥 Bart Simon, Jill Didur, Teresa Heffernan (eds.) Critical Posthumanism,-Special Issue of Cultural Critique No. 53 (winter)116-144.
1999 Encyclopedia of Reproductive Technologies. Editor. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.