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2013 CHASS INT NORTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Takeshita, Chikako

Assistant Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Women's Studies


Biography

Chikako Takeshita joined the Women's Studies Department in 2004. She brings to UCR an interdisciplinary training in science and technology studies and women's studies. She is teaching and developing courses on gender and science; women and technology; gender, technology, and the body; and gender, race, sexuality, and medicine. She is currently preparing a book manuscript from her dissertation titled "Negotiating Acceptability of the IUD: Contraceptive Technology, Women's Bodies, and Reproductive Politics." Her work demonstrates that various social interests, including the desire to control global population growth, the fear of medical litigations, attacks from antiabortionists, and the percieved need to secure the status of IUDs as a legitimate contraceptive method, have all played a significant role in directing scientific research on the device throughout its development over the last 40 years. Her future research interests include developing a theoretical understanding of the relationship between body and technology, where the body is viewed not only as a biological/physical/medical entity, but also as a site of technological intervention motivated by social, political, and scientific interests.

Former Institution

University of California, Santa Barbara, Women's Studies Program, Disseration Fellow, 2003-2004

Degrees

PhD Science and Technology Studies 2004

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

MS Science and Technology Studies 2000

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

MBA 1993

Institute European d'Administration

BA Human Science 1986

Keio University

Awards

ABD Fellowship, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003-2004
Rockefeller Archive Center, Grant-in-Aid, 2003
Globalizing Interdisciplinary Research Incentive Grant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2000


Research Area

Feminist studies of science, technology, and medicine; reproductive health, rights, and politics in global perspective; gender, technology and the body; women in science and engineering; indigenous rights and political ecology/economy.

Publications

2004 "Contraceptive Technology and Reproductive Rights: The IUD at Historical and Geographical Junctures" in Advances in Gender Research, vol. 8, 251-284.

2001 "Bioprospecting and Its Discontents: Indigenous Resistances as Legitimate Politics" in Alternatives, 26, 259-282.

2000 "Bioprospecting and Indigenous Peoples' Resistances" in Peace Review, 12(4), 555-562.