Rosalind Gill / Keith Grint (eds.)

The Gender-Technology Relation

Contemporary Theory And Research: An Introduction
Herausgeber: Gill, Rosalind; Grint, Keith

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780748401611
• ISBN-10: 074840161X
• Artikelnr.: 22425327

Autorenporträt

Rosalind Gill CRICT, Brunel University; Keith Grint Templeton College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One Theoretical Developments in the Gender-Technology Relationship:
Feminist Sociology and Methodology: Leaky Black Boxes in Gender/Technology
Relations; On Some Failures of Nerve in Constructivist and Feminist
Analyses of Technology. Part Two Case Studies of the Gender- Technology
Relation: Gender is Calling: Some Reflections of Past, Present and Future
Uses of the Telephone; The Configuration of Domestic Practices in the
Designing of Household Appliances; New Reproductive Technologies and "the
Modern Condition" in South East England; Networking Constructions of Gender
and Constructing Gender Networks: Considering Definitions of Woman in the
British Cervical Screening Programme; Competition and Collaboration in the
Male Shaping of Computing; Negotiating A Software Career: Informal Work
Practices And "The Lads" In a Software Installation.