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Author: Cynthia Cockburn Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 208
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"The authors follow the microwave's life trajectory from the design office to the factory and thence to the shops and household. Examining the different jobs women and men do, the different kinds of knowlege they contribute and the unequal importance they are ascribe in the evloution of the microwave, this book shows how technology relations continue to disadvantage women"--Back cover.
Author: Cynthia Cockburn Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
"The authors follow the microwave's life trajectory from the design office to the factory and thence to the shops and household. Examining the different jobs women and men do, the different kinds of knowlege they contribute and the unequal importance they are ascribe in the evloution of the microwave, this book shows how technology relations continue to disadvantage women"--Back cover.
Author: Caroline Sweetman Publisher: Oxfam ISBN: 9780855984229 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 92
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This collection of articles from Gender and Development considers technologies of many kinds, including those intended to save womens labour, to enable them to control their fertility and to learn and communicate using computer technology.
Author: Cynthia Cockburn Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
"The authors follow the microwave's life trajectory from the design office to the factory and thence to the shops and household. Examining the different jobs women and men do, the different kinds of knowlege they contribute and the unequal importance they are ascribe in the evloution of the microwave, this book shows how technology relations continue to disadvantage women"--Back cover.
Author: Neelam Kumar Publisher: Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Limited ISBN: 9789382264972 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 323
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Science has been gender biased for centuries across cultural contexts. Different ideological constructions of gender through different eras have restricted women's access to science. The twentieth century, especially its second half, witnessed certain important changes in terms of women's status in society. Gender and Science: Studies across Cultures includes essays by leading academics and researchers from different parts of the world, who discuss gender and science in their society and explore the relevance of gender theories. The book is divided into two broad sections. The first section provides conceptual reflections on gendered science and the second section examines the gender-science relationship using examples from various cultural contexts. This unique volume tries to answer several important questions such as these: Could science become free from gender biases? Could gender and science issues go beyond race, class, colonization and social and geographical distinctions? Are gender and science relations universal as assumed by the 'ethos of science' or vary with the culture? The book also tries to strike a balance between analyses of the gender dimension of science itself and the role of the wider social, economic and cultural factors. This interdisciplinary volume will be an important resource for graduate students and research scholars of gender studies, social history, psychology and sociology. Those interested in gender and science as well as cross-cultural issues will also find this book useful.
Author: Isabel Zorn Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3531902954 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 190
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How can information technology (IT) paradigms and design processes be studied from a gender perspective? What does IT design look like when its construction is informed by gender research? Though gender research and computing science seem like two separate worlds, this book proves how inspirational a confrontation and combination of those worlds can be. A deconstructive analysis of advanced fields of computing shows the multiple ways in which software design is gendered and how gendering effects are produced by its use. Concepts and assumptions underlying research and development, along with design tools and IT products, teaching methods and materials are studied. The book not only offers a gender analysis of information society technologies, it also shows practical examples of how IT can be different. A gender perspective on IT design can serve as an eye-opener for what tends to be overlooked and left out. It yields innovative ideas and high quality software systems that may empower a large diversity of users for an active participation in our information society.
Author: Booth, Shirley Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1615208143 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 350
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"This book deals with diffe four features of the burgeoning knowledge society: gender, equity, learning, and information technology with the focus on gender - not in the taken-for-granted biological sense of sex but in the socially constituted sense of it"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Cynthia Cockburn Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 208
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New products, new production processes: are they bringing equality to the lives of women and men? This text presents studies of the design, production, distribution and use of household technologies. As the innovations progress they reveal masculinity and femininity, power and subordination.
Author: Trauth, Eileen M. Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1591408164 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 1451
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"This two volume set includes 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Teresa de Lauretis Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253017920 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 166
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"Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently-marginalized contributions of feminist theory. . . . In sum, de Lauretis has written a book that should be required reading for every feminist in need of theoretical ammunition—and for every theorist in need of feminist enlightenment." —B. Ruby Rich " . . . sets philosophical ideas humming. . . . she has much to say." —Cineaste "I can think of no other work that pushes the debate on the female subject forward with such passion and intellectual rigor." —SubStance This book addresses the question of gender in poststructuralist theoretical discourse, postmodern fiction, and women's cinema. It examines the construction of gender both as representation and as self-representation in relation to several kinds of texts and argues that feminism is producing a radical rewriting, as well as a rereading, of the dominant forms of Western culture.
Author: Cynthia Cockburn
Author: Cynthia Cockburn
Author: Caroline Sweetman
Author: Cynthia Cockburn
Author: Nina Lerman
Author: Neelam Kumar
Author: Isabel Zorn
Author: Booth, Shirley
Author: Cynthia Cockburn
Author: Trauth, Eileen M.
Author: Teresa de Lauretis