Maria Rentetzi is Professor of Science, Technology, and Gender Studies at FAU Erlangen- Nurnberg, and an affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, Germany.

Introduction: Gendering Things

Maria Rentetzi

Part 1: Things in/as Laboratories

Sealing Wax and String

Donald L. Opitz

Butter: Fat Lions and Dairy Girls

Anna Frasca-Rath

Gendered Images of Chromosomes

María Jesús Santesmases

Godofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World: Phantoms, Radioiodine Uptake Tests, and the IAEA's Standardization Projects

Maria Rentetzi

The Tell-Tale Heart: Multiple Ontologies of the First Human Donor Heart

Annerose Böhrer and Larissa Pfaller

Colourful Minilabs: Cosmeceuticals at the Interface of Gender, Technology, and Knowledge Transfers

Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez

Part 2: Things as Artefacts

Gendered Mobility: Early Motor Scooting around 1920

Heike Weber

A Make-up Kit from the National Air and Space Museum

Eleanor S. Armstrong

The Fan: Gendered Bodily Communication at the Intersection of Salon Semiotics, Fashion, Political Campaigning, and Menopause Relief

Annette Keilhauer

Gendering the Boundary Object: "Sophia the Robot" as Cyborg-Woman, Fashionista, Citizen, and Imagination

Roger A. Søraa and Nienke Bruijning

Animating Machines, Alienating Women: Siri and Alexa as Affective Linguistic Labourers

Siri Lamoureaux and Alexa Hagerty

Part 3: Things as Sites of Power

Dangerous Erections: Gender, Race, and the Engineering of Trump's Border Wall

Amy E. Slaton

Paternity and Pedigree: How Academic Genealogical Databases Become Gendered

Rebecca M. Herzig

Is the Scrum Board Feminine?

Stefan Sauer and Amelie Tihlarik