Cyberfeminism: Connectivity, Critique & Creativity: Connectivity, Critique and Creativity - Softcover

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Susan Hawthorne is the author of six collections of poetry including Bird, The Butterfly Effect, Unsettling the Land, Earth’s Breath and Cow. She has worked in the publishing industry for twenty-five years and is also known as an aerialist. Two books, Bird and Earth’s Breath have been broadcast on the radio program, Poetica. In 2009 she was an Asialink Literature Resident at the University of Madras, India and she is Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University, Townsville. Her poetry has been published in Best Australian Poems anthologies on several occasions and Earth’s Breath was shortlisted for the 2010 Judith Wright Poetry Award. Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein have both taught postgraduate seminars on CyberFeminism at George Washington University. Renate Klein is Associate Professor of Women?s Studies at Deakin University. She was born in Zurich, Switzerland and has degrees from universities of Z?rich, London and the University of California (Berkeley). She is known internationally for her work on reproductive technologies and information technologies. She has spoken to parliamentary committees and on TV, radio and print media about ethical issues in reproductive medicines. Her books include the international bestseller Test Tube Women (1984, co-editor; translated in German and Japanese). Her other books include: Theories of Women's Studies (1983, co-editor with Gloria Bowles), Man Made Women (1986, co-author), The Exploitation of a Desire (1989, Deakin University Press, author), Infertility (1989, author, translated into German), Radical Voices (1990, co-editor with Debbie Steinberg), Angels of Power (1991) RU 486: Misconceptions, Myth and Morals (1991, co-author); 1994 Australia for Women: Travel and Culture/ Australien der Frauen: Reise und Kultur (co-editor with Susan Hawthorne, translated into German). She is co-editor with Diane Bell of, Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed (1996), With Jan Fook , she co-edited A Girl?s Best Friend: The Meaning of Dogs in Women?s Lives (2002) and with Jan Fook and Susan Hawthorne of Cat Tales: The Meaning of Cats in Women?s Lives (2003).