本研究計畫詳細探討西方當代以科學為主的戲劇作品,並從「性別」與「科技」跨 領域的整合型角度分析作品,意圖提供一種女性主義式的科技批判。本計畫選定1990 年到2009 年二十年間重要的六部科學戲劇作品(《阿卡狄亞》(Arcadia 1993)、《心靈病 房》(Wit 1995)、《空氣幫浦實驗》(An Experiment with an Air Pump 1998)、《求證》(Proof 2000)、《一針避孕》(An Immaculate Misconception 2000、《一些》(A Number 2002)), 並以兩年的時間深入研究與比較女性劇作家與男性劇作家處理性別與科學議題的不同 態度與方法。本計畫挪用西方「女性主義科技研究」(Feminist Science and Technology Studies)的方法,批判科學中的性別預設與科技發明中的性別偏見,揭露科學中的父權 意識形態如何「性別化」科技,而性別又如何因陽性科技的發展被形塑與建構。 This plan analyzes Western contemporary drama based on science from an interdisciplinary perspective between gender and technology studies, and it expects to provide with a feminist critique. Studying six plays published from 1990 to 2009, this plan spends two years scrutinizing and comparing female dramatists’ and male dramatists’ different attitudes toward gender and technology. Those six plays are Arcadia (1993), Wit (1995), An Experiment with an Air Pump (1998), Proof (2000), An Immaculate Misconception (2000), A Number (2002). This plan, appropriating Feminist Science and Technology studies, criticizes gender bias in science and sexual discrimination in technology and also reveals how the patriarchal ideology in science “genderizes” technology and how gender are shaped and created by masculine technology.