By now, you're probably sick of reading articles about men, women, and technology. Let me clue you in. Computers are tools. They are machines. They are important in a pragmatic sense, for what they allow a person to accomplish.
Users are passive, users are powerless, and just possessing a roomful of computers is irrelevant.
The two books reviewed this month address the problem of women, power, and technology in quite different ways. Although this 1996 collection is somewhat dated by Internet standards, its contributors address ongoing issues with which we continue to struggle. There will be those fascinated with the machine qua machine, but we have no reason to assume that to be a superior approach. Except, of course, that it's the masculine approach by computer culture standards and, therefore, has the air of superiority. The other contributors to this collection of course each take their own approach to the subject, and the overall effect is a more reflective compilation than many other writers' stabs at the subject.