Merete Lie
Biographic Data
| ID | 162198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merete Lie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merete |
| FAMILY NAME | Lie |
| SIGNATURE | LIE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8368-939X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From Restrictive to Permissive Legislation: Egg Donation in Norway
In 2020, following years of political debate, the Norwegian parliament passed legislation that eased restrictions on assisted reproductive technologies, including egg donation. This article examines the implications of this legislative shift in a country that had previously been characterised by highly restrictive policies on assisted reproductive technologies. The transition from a restrictive to a more permissive regulatory framework offers a u…
Eggdonasjon: Ambivalente fortellinger om kjønn, kropp og morskap
Etter mange år med politiske diskusjoner vedtok det norske Stortinget i 2020 å tillate eggdonasjon. For at noen skal kunne motta donerte egg, må andre donere. Denne artikkelen studerer hvordan kvinner som aldersmessig er kvalifiserte for å donere egg, reflekterer over denne muligheten. Mer spesifikt undersøker vi hvilke forståelser av kjønn, kropp og morskap som blir reflektert i kvinnenes holdninger til eggdonasjon, og hvordan dette kan tolkes i…
Feminist Technoscience and New Imaginaries of Human Reproduction: Feminism
New techno-natures: The future of human reproduction in sci-art
In the fields of sci-art, bioart and speculative design, contemporary artists are creating experiential visions of the future based on trends within science. Two artworks with futuristic figurations of human reproduction, Pinar Yoldas’ Designer Babies and Ai Hasegawa’s I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin/I Wanna Deliver a Shark, serve as the point of departure for revisiting the eternal nature-culture debate. Hasegawa’s work explores relations to other spe…
Bioteknologiske framtider: Refleksjoner over endringene i bioteknologiloven fra et kjønnsforskningsperspektiv
Etter år med politisk tautrekking fikk Norge i mai 2020 en ny bioteknologilov, hvorav flere av endringene omhandlet assistert reproduksjon. Hensikten med denne kommentarartikkelen er å invitere kjønnsforskere til å reflektere over disse lovendringene og hva de betyr for framtidas reproduksjon. Reproduksjon er av sentral betydning for hvordan kjønn kulturelt forstås og sosialt organiseres, og er derfor viktig for kjønnsforskningen å følge med på. …
Assisted Reproduction Across Borders: Feminist Perspectives on Normalizations, Disruptions and Transmissions
According to Meira Weiss (2002) Israeli society is obsessed with fertility, in a way that not only focuses on “quality” and the so called quest for the perfect baby, but also on “quantity”. Israel’s assisted reproductive policies are considered to be highly pronatalist. It has more fertility clinics per capita than any other country in the world and Israelis are by far the biggest consumers of fertility treatment in the world. Assisted reproducti…
Reproduction inside/outside: Medical imaging and the domestication of assisted reproductive technologies
Contemporary medical imaging technologies produce images on the level of human cells. As a result of such images, egg and sperm cells have become well-known artefacts of popular culture. Medical imaging technology has transformed these gametes from invisible matter integrated in biological processes within the body to identifiable objects. The visualisation of egg and sperm cells has literally lifted the process of human reproduction out of the f…
Reproductive Images: The Autonomous Cell
New medical imaging technologies enable the production of photos of human cells that are magnified to make them visible to the eye. Such cellular images have gained aesthetic as well as dramatic appeal, as they have moved out of the laboratories and become available for the public. At this stage, they are refashioned to reveal matters more clearly and pedagogically. Organic matter that might be confusing to the audience is removed and colours add…
Reproductive Imaginations: Stories of Egg and Sperm
The authors analyse how human reproduction is narrated in contemporary Norway, both in public settings and by individual women and men. We ask who and what is ascribed agency in these reproductive narratives and explore the different ways in which egg and sperm cells emerge as entities occupying centre stage in contemporary stories of conception—whereas the actual gendered persons are seldom mentioned. Stories of reproduction are “the bottom line…
Brainwashing: Taking Another Turn with Biology
Merete Lie: Brainwashing: Taking another turn with biologyWith this opportunity of taking turns, I would like to share one concern and at the same time point to some new and positive trends of bridging the nature-culture gap.First to the concern, that is what I see as a widening gap between feminist theories and 'folk theories' of gender
Det lokale i det globale: Norsk industri i Asia
Introduction to the Theme Issue on Human Trafficking
(2008). Introduction to the Theme Issue on Human Trafficking. Gender, Technology and Development: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-4
Gender and Bioethics Intertwined: Egg Donation within the Context of Equal Opportunities
The article analyses the debate on egg donation in Norway using source material from the parliamentary debate of amendments to the Biotechnology Law. In both policy documents on bioethics and the Biotechnology Law, gender is not a spoken issue, but bringing egg and sperm directly to the fore highlights how gender is implicated in bioethics debates. Gender perceptions affect the understanding of `what egg and sperm may do' at the same time as the …
Gender in the Information Society: Strategies of Inclusion
This article reports from a European study on efforts to close a gendered digital divide through inclusion. The authors argue that inclusion is not just a mirror image of exclusion, and that to achieve inclusion, it is not sufficient to curb exclusion mechanisms but to enhance positive measures of inclusion. A variety of inclusion strategies have been studied, the authors concluding that ‘one size does not fit all’. Therefore, to reach a wide aud…
From Nidl to Globalization: Studying Women Workers in an Increasingly Globalized Economy
This article approaches the phenomenon of globalization from a long-term perspective and argues for analyzing globalization as a process, focusing on different actors within a global economy. Based on previous findings from Malaysia and some preliminary findings from the Shanghai region, China, it explores the motives and adaptations of foreign industries in Asia. The article also seeks to identify the interdependencies of local and global actors…
Science as Father: Sex and Gender in the Age of Reproductive Technologies
The new reproductive technologies affect several of our conceptual distinctions, and most basically the one between nature and culture. This includes the understanding of reproduction as natural, biological processes and of the body as a product of nature. Nature and culture has been a basic conceptual distinction in western culture and it is paralleled in the division between sex, understood as nature, and gender, understood as culture. The proc…
On gender and things
Two Generations: Life stories and social change in Malaysia
Plurality and difference between women has been stressed in feminist research. There has, however, not been as much attention to differences related to age. Women's lives change during their lifetimes, but change also takes place from one generation to the next, especially during rapid modernisation processes. New lifestyles may affect relationships between women of different generations. Thus social change allocating higher status and more freed…
Globalisation, place and gender
Technology and Gender versus Technology and Work: Social Work and Computers
Recently, computers have been introduced within the field of social work, which is a female-dominated profession. A direct relationship is often assumed between gender and attitudes to technology. However, when people are introduced to computers at work they have already acquired a specific way of reasoning through their training. A way to understand the specific attitudes to computers among social workers is therefore to focus on the nature of t…
Technology and Masculinity: The Case of the Computer
Feminism and Constructivism: Do Artifacts Have Gender
This article explores possibilities for establishing dialogues between feminism and constructivism in the field of technology studies. Based on an overview of Norwegian feminist debates about technology, it indicates several points where feminism and constructivism meet and can mutually benefit from each other. The article critically examines feminist studies questioning the problems of technological determinism, social deternacnism, and essentia…
Renegotiating Local Values: Working Women and Foreign Industry in Malaysia
Explores the role of women as social actors who contribute to both continuity and change in their society. It examines the inter-linkages between women, industrial work and relations both within the family and in the local community
Feminism and Constructivism: Do Artifacts Have Gender
This article explores possibilities for establishing dialogues between feminism and constructivism in the field of technology studies. Based on an overview of Norwegian feminist debates about technology, it indicates several points where feminism and constructivism meet and can mutually benefit from each other. The article critically examines feminist studies questioning the problems of technological determinism, social deternacnism, and essentia…
On gender and things
Technology and Masculinity: The Case of the Computer
Reproductive Imaginations: Stories of Egg and Sperm
The authors analyse how human reproduction is narrated in contemporary Norway, both in public settings and by individual women and men. We ask who and what is ascribed agency in these reproductive narratives and explore the different ways in which egg and sperm cells emerge as entities occupying centre stage in contemporary stories of conception—whereas the actual gendered persons are seldom mentioned. Stories of reproduction are “the bottom line…
Gender and Bioethics Intertwined: Egg Donation within the Context of Equal Opportunities
The article analyses the debate on egg donation in Norway using source material from the parliamentary debate of amendments to the Biotechnology Law. In both policy documents on bioethics and the Biotechnology Law, gender is not a spoken issue, but bringing egg and sperm directly to the fore highlights how gender is implicated in bioethics debates. Gender perceptions affect the understanding of `what egg and sperm may do' at the same time as the …
Gender in the Information Society: Strategies of Inclusion
This article reports from a European study on efforts to close a gendered digital divide through inclusion. The authors argue that inclusion is not just a mirror image of exclusion, and that to achieve inclusion, it is not sufficient to curb exclusion mechanisms but to enhance positive measures of inclusion. A variety of inclusion strategies have been studied, the authors concluding that ‘one size does not fit all’. Therefore, to reach a wide aud…
Reproductive Images: The Autonomous Cell
New medical imaging technologies enable the production of photos of human cells that are magnified to make them visible to the eye. Such cellular images have gained aesthetic as well as dramatic appeal, as they have moved out of the laboratories and become available for the public. At this stage, they are refashioned to reveal matters more clearly and pedagogically. Organic matter that might be confusing to the audience is removed and colours add…
Science as Father: Sex and Gender in the Age of Reproductive Technologies
The new reproductive technologies affect several of our conceptual distinctions, and most basically the one between nature and culture. This includes the understanding of reproduction as natural, biological processes and of the body as a product of nature. Nature and culture has been a basic conceptual distinction in western culture and it is paralleled in the division between sex, understood as nature, and gender, understood as culture. The proc…
Reproduction inside/outside: Medical imaging and the domestication of assisted reproductive technologies
Contemporary medical imaging technologies produce images on the level of human cells. As a result of such images, egg and sperm cells have become well-known artefacts of popular culture. Medical imaging technology has transformed these gametes from invisible matter integrated in biological processes within the body to identifiable objects. The visualisation of egg and sperm cells has literally lifted the process of human reproduction out of the f…
Technology and Gender versus Technology and Work: Social Work and Computers
Recently, computers have been introduced within the field of social work, which is a female-dominated profession. A direct relationship is often assumed between gender and attitudes to technology. However, when people are introduced to computers at work they have already acquired a specific way of reasoning through their training. A way to understand the specific attitudes to computers among social workers is therefore to focus on the nature of t…
Brainwashing: Taking Another Turn with Biology
Merete Lie: Brainwashing: Taking another turn with biologyWith this opportunity of taking turns, I would like to share one concern and at the same time point to some new and positive trends of bridging the nature-culture gap.First to the concern, that is what I see as a widening gap between feminist theories and 'folk theories' of gender
New techno-natures: The future of human reproduction in sci-art
In the fields of sci-art, bioart and speculative design, contemporary artists are creating experiential visions of the future based on trends within science. Two artworks with futuristic figurations of human reproduction, Pinar Yoldas’ Designer Babies and Ai Hasegawa’s I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin/I Wanna Deliver a Shark, serve as the point of departure for revisiting the eternal nature-culture debate. Hasegawa’s work explores relations to other spe…
From Nidl to Globalization: Studying Women Workers in an Increasingly Globalized Economy
This article approaches the phenomenon of globalization from a long-term perspective and argues for analyzing globalization as a process, focusing on different actors within a global economy. Based on previous findings from Malaysia and some preliminary findings from the Shanghai region, China, it explores the motives and adaptations of foreign industries in Asia. The article also seeks to identify the interdependencies of local and global actors…
Two Generations: Life stories and social change in Malaysia
Plurality and difference between women has been stressed in feminist research. There has, however, not been as much attention to differences related to age. Women's lives change during their lifetimes, but change also takes place from one generation to the next, especially during rapid modernisation processes. New lifestyles may affect relationships between women of different generations. Thus social change allocating higher status and more freed…
Technology and Masculinity: The Case of the Computer
Feminism and Constructivism: Do Artifacts Have Gender
This article explores possibilities for establishing dialogues between feminism and constructivism in the field of technology studies. Based on an overview of Norwegian feminist debates about technology, it indicates several points where feminism and constructivism meet and can mutually benefit from each other. The article critically examines feminist studies questioning the problems of technological determinism, social deternacnism, and essentia…
Renegotiating Local Values: Working Women and Foreign Industry in Malaysia
Explores the role of women as social actors who contribute to both continuity and change in their society. It examines the inter-linkages between women, industrial work and relations both within the family and in the local community
Technology and Gender versus Technology and Work: Social Work and Computers
Recently, computers have been introduced within the field of social work, which is a female-dominated profession. A direct relationship is often assumed between gender and attitudes to technology. However, when people are introduced to computers at work they have already acquired a specific way of reasoning through their training. A way to understand the specific attitudes to computers among social workers is therefore to focus on the nature of t…
Globalisation, place and gender
Two Generations: Life stories and social change in Malaysia
Plurality and difference between women has been stressed in feminist research. There has, however, not been as much attention to differences related to age. Women's lives change during their lifetimes, but change also takes place from one generation to the next, especially during rapid modernisation processes. New lifestyles may affect relationships between women of different generations. Thus social change allocating higher status and more freed…
Science as Father: Sex and Gender in the Age of Reproductive Technologies
The new reproductive technologies affect several of our conceptual distinctions, and most basically the one between nature and culture. This includes the understanding of reproduction as natural, biological processes and of the body as a product of nature. Nature and culture has been a basic conceptual distinction in western culture and it is paralleled in the division between sex, understood as nature, and gender, understood as culture. The proc…
On gender and things
From Nidl to Globalization: Studying Women Workers in an Increasingly Globalized Economy
This article approaches the phenomenon of globalization from a long-term perspective and argues for analyzing globalization as a process, focusing on different actors within a global economy. Based on previous findings from Malaysia and some preliminary findings from the Shanghai region, China, it explores the motives and adaptations of foreign industries in Asia. The article also seeks to identify the interdependencies of local and global actors…
Gender and Bioethics Intertwined: Egg Donation within the Context of Equal Opportunities
The article analyses the debate on egg donation in Norway using source material from the parliamentary debate of amendments to the Biotechnology Law. In both policy documents on bioethics and the Biotechnology Law, gender is not a spoken issue, but bringing egg and sperm directly to the fore highlights how gender is implicated in bioethics debates. Gender perceptions affect the understanding of `what egg and sperm may do' at the same time as the …
Gender in the Information Society: Strategies of Inclusion
This article reports from a European study on efforts to close a gendered digital divide through inclusion. The authors argue that inclusion is not just a mirror image of exclusion, and that to achieve inclusion, it is not sufficient to curb exclusion mechanisms but to enhance positive measures of inclusion. A variety of inclusion strategies have been studied, the authors concluding that ‘one size does not fit all’. Therefore, to reach a wide aud…
Introduction to the Theme Issue on Human Trafficking
(2008). Introduction to the Theme Issue on Human Trafficking. Gender, Technology and Development: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-4
Det lokale i det globale: Norsk industri i Asia
Reproductive Imaginations: Stories of Egg and Sperm
The authors analyse how human reproduction is narrated in contemporary Norway, both in public settings and by individual women and men. We ask who and what is ascribed agency in these reproductive narratives and explore the different ways in which egg and sperm cells emerge as entities occupying centre stage in contemporary stories of conception—whereas the actual gendered persons are seldom mentioned. Stories of reproduction are “the bottom line…
Brainwashing: Taking Another Turn with Biology
Merete Lie: Brainwashing: Taking another turn with biologyWith this opportunity of taking turns, I would like to share one concern and at the same time point to some new and positive trends of bridging the nature-culture gap.First to the concern, that is what I see as a widening gap between feminist theories and 'folk theories' of gender
Reproductive Images: The Autonomous Cell
New medical imaging technologies enable the production of photos of human cells that are magnified to make them visible to the eye. Such cellular images have gained aesthetic as well as dramatic appeal, as they have moved out of the laboratories and become available for the public. At this stage, they are refashioned to reveal matters more clearly and pedagogically. Organic matter that might be confusing to the audience is removed and colours add…
Reproduction inside/outside: Medical imaging and the domestication of assisted reproductive technologies
Contemporary medical imaging technologies produce images on the level of human cells. As a result of such images, egg and sperm cells have become well-known artefacts of popular culture. Medical imaging technology has transformed these gametes from invisible matter integrated in biological processes within the body to identifiable objects. The visualisation of egg and sperm cells has literally lifted the process of human reproduction out of the f…
Assisted Reproduction Across Borders: Feminist Perspectives on Normalizations, Disruptions and Transmissions
According to Meira Weiss (2002) Israeli society is obsessed with fertility, in a way that not only focuses on “quality” and the so called quest for the perfect baby, but also on “quantity”. Israel’s assisted reproductive policies are considered to be highly pronatalist. It has more fertility clinics per capita than any other country in the world and Israelis are by far the biggest consumers of fertility treatment in the world. Assisted reproducti…
Bioteknologiske framtider: Refleksjoner over endringene i bioteknologiloven fra et kjønnsforskningsperspektiv
Etter år med politisk tautrekking fikk Norge i mai 2020 en ny bioteknologilov, hvorav flere av endringene omhandlet assistert reproduksjon. Hensikten med denne kommentarartikkelen er å invitere kjønnsforskere til å reflektere over disse lovendringene og hva de betyr for framtidas reproduksjon. Reproduksjon er av sentral betydning for hvordan kjønn kulturelt forstås og sosialt organiseres, og er derfor viktig for kjønnsforskningen å følge med på. …
Feminist Technoscience and New Imaginaries of Human Reproduction: Feminism
New techno-natures: The future of human reproduction in sci-art
In the fields of sci-art, bioart and speculative design, contemporary artists are creating experiential visions of the future based on trends within science. Two artworks with futuristic figurations of human reproduction, Pinar Yoldas’ Designer Babies and Ai Hasegawa’s I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin/I Wanna Deliver a Shark, serve as the point of departure for revisiting the eternal nature-culture debate. Hasegawa’s work explores relations to other spe…
Eggdonasjon: Ambivalente fortellinger om kjønn, kropp og morskap
Etter mange år med politiske diskusjoner vedtok det norske Stortinget i 2020 å tillate eggdonasjon. For at noen skal kunne motta donerte egg, må andre donere. Denne artikkelen studerer hvordan kvinner som aldersmessig er kvalifiserte for å donere egg, reflekterer over denne muligheten. Mer spesifikt undersøker vi hvilke forståelser av kjønn, kropp og morskap som blir reflektert i kvinnenes holdninger til eggdonasjon, og hvordan dette kan tolkes i…
From Restrictive to Permissive Legislation: Egg Donation in Norway
In 2020, following years of political debate, the Norwegian parliament passed legislation that eased restrictions on assisted reproductive technologies, including egg donation. This article examines the implications of this legislative shift in a country that had previously been characterised by highly restrictive policies on assisted reproductive technologies. The transition from a restrictive to a more permissive regulatory framework offers a u…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Reproduction (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works)