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I would like to thank Maureen McNeil, Jackie Stacey, Adrian Mackenzie and this volume’s editors for their feedback on earlier drafts of this chapter.

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Roberts, C. (2018). Practising Ambivalence: The Feminist Politics of Engaging with Technoscience. In: Åsberg, C., Braidotti, R. (eds) A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62140-1_17

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