Bringing technology home
Subtitle: gender and technology in a changing Europe
By: edited by Cynthia Cockburn and Ruža Fürst-Dilić.
Contributors: Cockburn, Cynthia.; First-Dilić, Ruža.
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Buckingham [England]; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Sex role -- Europe.; Women -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Europe.; Housewives -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Europe.; Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- Europe.; Technology -- Social aspects -- Europe.
Description: New products, new production processes: are they bringing equality to the lives of women and men? This text presents studies of the design, production, distribution and use of household technologies. As the innovations progress they reveal masculinity and femininity, power and subordination.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.