Technologies of Gender

Author: Teresa de Lauretis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253017920
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
"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.

Gender in Science and Technology

Author: Waltraud Ernst
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839424348
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the application in interdisciplinary research, development and teaching. Topics range from the design of information and communication technologies, epistemologies of biology and chemistry to teaching mathematics and professional processes in engineering. Contributions by Anne Balsamo, Wendy Faulkner, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Barbara Orland, Els Rommes, and others.

Women, Gender, and Technology

Author: Mary Frank Fox
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252055659
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
An interdisciplinary investigation of the co-creation of gender and technology Each of the ten chapters in Women, Gender, and Technology explores a different aspect of how gender and technology work--and are at work--in particular domains, including film narratives, reproductive technologies, information technology, and the profession of engineering. The volume's contributors include representatives of over half a dozen different disciplines, and each provides a novel perspective on the foundational idea that gender and technology co-create one another. Together, their articles provide a window on to the rich and complex issues that arise in the attempt to understand the relationship between these profoundly intertwined notions.

Technology and Gender

Author: Francesca Bray
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520919009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of freedom and dignity, and so physically and morally deformed by footbinding and the tyrannies of patriarchy that they were incapable of productive work. She proposes a concept of gynotechnics, a set of everyday technologies that define women's roles, as a creative new way to explore how societies translate moral and social principles into a web of material forms and bodily practices. Bray examines three different aspects of domestic life in China, tracing their developments from 1000 to 1800 A.D. She begins with the shell of domesticity, the house, focusing on how domestic space embodied hierarchies of gender. She follows the shift in the textile industry from domestic production to commercial production. Despite increasing emphasis on women's reproductive roles, she argues, this cannot be reduced to childbearing. Female hierarchies within the family reinforced the power of wives, whose responsibilities included ritual activities and financial management as well as the education of children.

Gender and Technology

Author: Nina Lerman
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482

Book Description
McGaw; Joy Parr, Simon Fraser University.

Feminist Technology

Author: Linda L. Layne
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252077202
Category : Feminist theory
Languages : en
Pages : 75

Book Description
Recognizing the different needs & desires of women & acknowledging the multiplicity of feminist approaches, this work offers a debate on existing & emergent technologies that share the goal of improving women's lives.

Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology

Author: Trauth, Eileen M.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1591408164
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1451

Book Description
"This two volume set includes 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology"--Provided by publisher.

Shaping Women's Work

Author: Juliet Webster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317893484
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
A new book offering a broad overview of the debates about technologies and gender relations at work in a range of occupational areas. Innovative in its approach it deals with gender relations in terms of the ways in which they influence the design and development of technologies, and how gender relations are themselves shaped by technologies. The book will draw heavily on the theoretical perspective looking at the ways in which sexual divisions of labour and gender relations in the workplace profoundly affect the direction and pace of technological change, and tracks the development of certain technologies showing how, through their evolution, they embody these social relations.

Gender, Technology and Violence

Author: Marie Segrave
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315441144
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Technological developments move at lightening pace and can bring with them new possibilities for social harm. This book brings together original empirical and theoretical work examining how digital technologies both create and sustain various forms of gendered violence and provide platforms for resistance and criminal justice intervention. This edited collection is organised around two key themes of facilitation and resistance, with an emphasis through the whole collection on the development of a gendered interrogation of contemporary practices of technologically-enabled or enhanced practices of violence. Addressing a broad range of criminological issues such as intimate partner violence, rape and sexual assault, online sexual harassment, gendered political violence, online culture, cyberbullying, and human trafficking, and including a critical examination of the broader issue of feminist ‘digilantism’ and resistance to online sexual harassment, this book examines the ways in which new and emerging technologies facilitate new platforms for gendered violence as well as offering both formal and informal opportunities to prevent and/or respond to gendered violence.

The Gender-Technology Relation

Author: Rosalind Gill
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135340692
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Provides a review of contemporary theory and empirical research into the relationship between feminism and social constructivism. Through case studies, the book focuses on issues raised by different technologies and on developing theoretical understandings of the gender-technology relation.