Gender and Technology

A Reader
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7259-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 776 g

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. Because these stereotypes necessarily have economic, social, and political consequences, understanding how gender shapes the ways we view and use technology—and how technology shapes our concept of gender—has emerged as a matter of serious scholarly importance. 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. Together, these essays reveal the ways in which technology and gender—far from being essential, immutable categories—develop historically as social constructions.

Contributors: Patricia Cooper, University of Kentucky; Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan; Wendy Gamber, Indiana University; Carolyn M. Goldstein, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, Massachusetts; Rebecca Herzig, Bates College; Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware; Ronald R. Kline, Cornell University; Jennifer Light, Northwestern University; Rachel P. Maines, Cornell University's Hotel School Library; Judith A. McGaw; Joy Parr, Simon Fraser University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lerman, Nina E

Lerman, Nina

Oldenziel, Ruth

Mohun, Arwen P

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Interrogating Boundaries
Part I: Entwined Categories: Gender Constructs Technology
Chapter 1. Why Feminine Technologies Matter
Chapter 2. Why Masculine Technologies Matter
Chapter 3. Situated Technology: Meanings
Chapter 4. Situated Technology: Camouflage
Part II: Entwined Categories: Technology Constructs Gender
Chapter 5. Industrial Genders: Constructing Boundaries
Chapter 6. Industrial Genders: Home/Factory
Chapter 7. Industrial Genders: Soft/Hard
Part III: Industrial Junctions: Gendering Industrial Technologies
Chapter 8. Cigarmaking
Chapter 9. Dressmaking
Chapter 10. Meatpacking
Chapter 11. Programming
Part IV: Industrial Junctions: Technologies of Industrial Genders
Chapter 12. Economics and Homes: Agency
Chapter 13. Home EconomiesL Mediators
Chapter 14. Home Ideologies: Progress?
The Shoulders We Stand On/The View From Here: Historiography and Directions For Research
Instructor's Notes on Organization
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mohun, Arwen P
Arwen P. Mohun is a professor of history at the University of Delaware. She is author of Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880–1940 and coeditor of Gender and Technology: A Reader, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Nina E. Lerman is an associate professor of history at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Ruth Oldenziel is an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. Arwen P. Mohun is an associate professor of history at the University of Delaware.