Gender & technology : a reader /
Contributor(s): Lerman, Nina E
| Oldenziel, Ruth | Mohun, Arwen.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003Description: x, 465 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0801872596; 9780801872594:.Subject(s): Sex role | Sexual division of labor | Technology -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 303.483 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Interrogating boundaries / Nina E. Lerman, Ruth Oldenziel, 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, 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.