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Gender & technology : a reader

-- Gender and technology

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For most of human experience, certainly of late, the artifacts of technological civilization have become closely associated with gender, sometimes for physiological reasons (brassieres or condoms, for example) but more often because of social and cultural factors, both obvious and obscure. Because these stereotypes necessarily have economic, social, and political consequences, understanding how gender shapes the ways we view and use technology—and how technology shapes our concept of gender—has emerged as a matter of serious scholarly importance. Gender and Technology brings together leading historians of technology to explore this entwined and reciprocal relationship, focusing on the tools (cars, typewriters, computers, vibrators), industries (dressmaking, steam laundering, cigar making, meat packing) and places (factories, offices, homes) of North America between 1850 and 1950. Together, these essays reveal the ways in which technology and gender—far from being essential, immutable categories—develop historically as social constructions.

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Gender & technology : a reader -- Gender and technology

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HQ1075 .G46194 2003

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Authors

Lerman, Nina E., 1961-
Oldenziel, Ruth, 1958-
Mohun, Arwen, 1961-

Subjects

Whitman College.--Authors, Faculty local
Sex role.
Sexual division of labor.
Technology--Social aspects.
Technologie
Vrouwen
Sekserol
Arbeidsverdeling
Rôle selon le sexe.
Division sexuelle du travail.
Technologie--Aspect social.
Geschlechterrolle
Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung
Arbeidsverdeling.
Sekserol.
Technologie.
Vrouwen.
USA

Language

English

Published

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2003.

Publication Desc

x, 465 p. : ill. ;

ISBN

0801872596

LCCN

2002012553

Target Audience

Unknown or not specified

Dimensions

23 cm.

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Summary Note

For most of human experience, certainly of late, the artifacts of technological civilization have become closely associated with gender, sometimes for physiological reasons (brassieres or condoms, for example) but more often because of social and cultural factors, both obvious and obscure. Because these stereotypes necessarily have economic, social, and political consequences, understanding how gender shapes the ways we view and use technology—and how technology shapes our concept of gender—has emerged as a matter of serious scholarly importance. Gender and Technology brings together leading historians of technology to explore this entwined and reciprocal relationship, focusing on the tools (cars, typewriters, computers, vibrators), industries (dressmaking, steam laundering, cigar making, meat packing) and places (factories, offices, homes) of North America between 1850 and 1950. Together, these essays reveal the ways in which technology and gender—far from being essential, immutable categories—develop historically as social constructions.

Content Note

Introduction : Interrogating boundaries / --Why feminine technologies matter / -- Why masculine technologies matter / -- Situated technology : meanings / -- Situated technology : camouflage / -- Industrial genders : constructing boundaries / -- Industrial genders : home/factory / -- Industrial genders : soft/hard / -- Cigarmaking / -- Dressmaking / -- Meatpacking / -- Programming / -- Economics and homes : agency / -- Home economics : mediators / -- Home ideologies : progress? / -- The shoulders we stand on/The view from here : historiography and directions for research / Nina E. Lerman, Arwen P. Mohun, Ruth Oldenziel. Introduction : Interrogating boundaries / Nina E. Lerman, Ruth Oldenziel, and Arwen P. Mohun - Why feminine technologies matter / Judith A. McGaw - Why masculine technologies matter / Ruth Oldenziel - Situated technology : meanings / Rebecca Herzig - Situated technology : camouflage / Rachel P. Maines - Industrial genders : constructing boundaries / Nina E. Lerman - Industrial genders : home/factory / Arwen P. Mohun - Industrial genders : soft/hard / Paul N. Edwards - Cigarmaking / Patricia Cooper - Dressmaking / Wendy Gamber - Meatpacking / Roger Horowitz - Programming / Jennifer Light - Economics and homes : agency / Joy Parr - Home economics : mediators / Carolyn M. Goldstein - Home ideologies : progress? / Ronald R. Kline - The shoulders we stand on/The view from here : historiography and directions for research / Nina E. Lerman, Arwen P. Mohun, and Ruth Oldenziel.