Molecular Feminisms

"What does feminist science for the twenty-first century look like? Drawing together molecular biology practices with feminist theory, Roy brilliantly shows us the way with her materialist approach to cloning, estrogen receptors, neurons, and grass stolons. This book is bound to be a classic in feminist technoscience studies."—Michelle Murphy, professor of history and women and gender studies, University of Toronto

"Employing the stolonic growth of grass as a strategy for connectedness and the expansion of thought, Roy engages and enlightens the reader as to how feminism informs molecular biology and vice versa."—Margaret McCarthy, professor of pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine

"Reconfiguring a more creative and mutually beneficial interaction between the sciences and the humanities is an immensely important task and Molecular Feminisms provides an excellent and accessible beginning to this significant long-term project."—Elizabeth Grosz, author of The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism

"Molecular Feminisms is a vital book, in every sense. It is a lively and important account that thinks biology otherwise, in ethnographically rigorous ways. At a political moment when fighting for science is as urgent as critiquing its reductionisms, Deboleena Roy provokes us into thinking about what a feminist stance towards, and praxis of, the life sciences might look like."—Kaushik Sunder Rajan, author of Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine