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Gender & technology : a reader / - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. - x, 465 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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, Ruth Oldenziel, Arwen P. Mohun -- Judith A. McGaw -- Ruth Oldenziel -- Rebecca Herzig -- Rachel P. Maines -- Nina E. Lerman -- Arwen P. Mohun -- Paul N. Edwards -- Patricia Cooper -- Wendy Gamber -- Roger Horowitz -- Jennifer Light -- Joy Parr -- Carolyn M. Goldstein -- Ronald R. Kline -- Nina E. Lerman, Arwen P. Mohun, Ruth Oldenziel.

'Gender and Technology' brings together leading historians of technology to explore the entwined & reciprocal relationship between technology & our concepts of gender, focusing on the tools, industries & places of North America between 1850 & 1950.

ISBN: 0801872596 9780801872594: £18.50

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sex role.
Sexual division of labor.
Technology--Social aspects.

Dewey Class. No.: 303.483 / LER