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Doing and thinking (techno)science in feminist perspective. Learning with an Italian women’s (hi)story about feminism, science and technology1 ALLEGRINI, Allessandra Human Sciences at University of Verona, Italy Introduction The diverse ways of thinking the relationship between science-technology and feminism This paper would like to offer a very initial and partial insight into one main idea – the diverse ways of thinking the relationship between science-technology and feminism – that I would describe as follows: different genealogies the relationship between science and technology construct different and partial spheres of pertinence in which the notion of technoscience is relevant from a feminist perspective. In the past thirty years, in different research fields, including STS, technoscience has emerged as a prominent notion, materially-and-discursively constructed and co-agented, and basically meant as “a world and a time in which scientific knowledge and the material production of technologies are inseparable from socio-political processes and imaginaries” (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017). In order to enhance the complexity and the multiversity2 of this concept, it may be important to consider that diverse historical-theoretical genesis underpin it, in a way that it could be worthy of thinking about it as a differently conceptualized intersection among the relationship between science and technology, on one side, and the social, the economic and the political, on the other. This way of thinking about technoscience is not aimed at a nostalgic and anachronistic, rapprochement of Western past, when early modern philosophies of science's separations among contexts of scientific knowledge production and its utilization were not only applied to a distinction among pure science and its technological uses (and abuses), but simultaneously included a broader division among internal and external – extra-scientific as well extra- technological – contexts (e.g. socio-political-economic). It is rather an attempt to question if the inextricable relationship between science and technology can differently signifies and impacts, whether it is thought as interrelated to the political, the economic, and the social, considering that these spheres are not so easily overlapping, and especially insomuch as early modern philosophies of science themselves assembled them as uniformed and unspecified contexts, external to scientific knowledge production (Latour 2005). Nowadays, interchanges among these spheres appear to be a way, or maybe a strategy, contemporary neo-liberalist material-discursive order functions, in that it governs by following prevalent economic reasons which tend to surrogate any political agency, while holding it and moreover reducing it to an undifferentiated societal (Guazzicalupo 2014). Accordingly, the operation of distinguishing among these spheres of pertinences is not motivated by a regressive separation's desire. It is instead committed to an effort at enhancing 1 This paper actually tries to connect different learnings: besides the Italian women and science groups I have being learning with over the years, I would like to mention my present thinking with Diotima – Female Philosophical Community at University of Verona. 2 This concept is used in de-colonial literature on science and technology and ecology. 12