Part II
Feminist TechnoScience – trying a position
I use the concept feminist research synonymously with gender research and I use the concept feminist technoscience almost synonymously with feminist research within technology and engineering. In my academic context I still have to explain why I am defining myself as a feminist researcher. When I started in the 80s I thought it would be possible to “clean” the concept feminist researcher from all strange associations people use to make (Wahl 1996). This concept is still provoking (in Sweden) because it becomes ‘political’64 and a transforming agent in an academic discourse unwilling to transform. I should interpret this situation positively as it signals transformation of a second order (Ahrenfelt 2001), which is what I am striving for.
The feminist technoscience I am arguing for is the one not only analysing and theorizing but goes into practice and try to be transformation agents by staying with the trouble. (Haraway 2010)