Annette Burfoot
Professor Emerita
BAH (York University); MES (York University), D.Phil. (University of Sussex)
Sociology
Queen's University
Research Interests
Science and Technology Studies (reproductive technologies, genetic engineering, human anatomy and manufacture); Feminist Social Thought; Visual Culture.
I am currently working on a new project: 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’ experience in Canada has been reactivated following the pandemic.
Selected Publications
2022 Women and Reproductive Technologies: The Socio-Economic Development of Technologies Changing the World. London: Routledge. Open Access.
2020 with Heather Plyley, “Fat Reclamation and Identity Management in the Canadian Context,” in Bodywork in Canada: Critical Approaches to Embodied Experience.” Edited by Valerie Zawilski. Toronto: Canadian Scholars.
2014 Visual Culture and Gender (Vols. I – IV). Editor. London: Routledge. 2014 “Revisiting Mary O'Brien – Reproductive Consciousness and Liquid Maternity,” Journal of Socialist Studies/ Etudes Socialistes 10(1) 174-190.
2011 “Feminist Technoscience: A Solution to Theoretical Conundrums and the Wane of Feminist Politics?” 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 “Human remains: Identity politics in the face of biotechnology,” 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.