Gender-technology relations
Subtitle: exploring stability and change
By: Hilde G. Corneliussen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230300132
Subjects: Sociological aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; Electronic data processing; Philosophy; Women in technology; Women in computer science; Sex differences; Technology
Description: "Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and more recent discussions of gender in relation to computers and computing"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: Disrupting the Impression of Stability in the Gender-Technology Relation; title: Changing Images of Computers and its Users since 1980; title: Discursive Developments Within Computer Education; title: Variations in Gender-ICT Relations Among Male and Female Computer Students; title: Stories About Individual Change and Transformation; title: Layered Meanings and Differences Within; title: Is there an Elsewhere?; title: References; title: Endnotes; title: Index.