Gender and Technology: A Reader
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (583 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801872596 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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The pieces included are well-written, thought-provoking, and frequently just plain enjoyable. The essays selected for this volume cover a well-distributed range of subjects, bringing history of technology and gender studies together with studies of consumerism, labor, production, race, and other topics. (Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison) . (Amy Bix, Iowa State University)This excellent anthology should become a standard source for those interested in the history of gender and technology, as well as a widely used text for courses in gender studies. The volume is grounded in the mature historical scholarship published in Technology and Culture, and significantly strengthened by the inclusion of key articles from other sources. The selection of articles is brilliant. The collection will serve valuable scholarly p
Nina E. Lerman is an associate professor of history at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Arwen P. Mohun is an associate professor of history at the University of Delaware.. Ruth Oldenziel is an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam
A great book about gender and technology This book is exactly as the title states. The topics covered are varied and fascinating. The editors have done an excellent job of assembling a book that covers many forms of technology and the impacts these changes have had on men and women.. Five Stars Big deal!
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. 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. McGaw; Joy Parr, Simon Fraser University.. Together, these essays reveal the ways in which technology and genderfar from being essential, immutable categoriesdevelop historically as social constructions.Contributors: Patricia Cooper, University of Kentucky; Paul N. Maines, Cornell University's Hotel School Library; Judith A. Goldstein, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, Massachusetts; Rebecca Herzig, Bates College; Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware; Ronald R. Edwards, University of Michigan; Wendy Gamber, Indiana U