Zeros and Ones
Subtitle: Digital Women and the New Technoculture
By: Sadie Plant.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fourth Estate; Doubleday
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Technological innovations -- Social aspects.; Technology -- Social aspects.; Women -- Effect of technological innovations on.
Other titles: Zeros plus ones; Zeros and ones
Description: Beginning with Ada Lovelace and her unheralded contributions to Charles Babbage and his development of the Difference Engine, Sadie Plant traces the critical contributions women have made to the progress of computing.

Shattering the myth that women are victims of technological change, Zeros + Ones shows how women and women's work in particular - weaving and typing, computing and telecommunicating - have been tending the machinery of the digital age for generations, the very technologies that are now revolutionizing the Western world.

In this manifesto on the relationship between women and machines, Sadie Plant explores the networks and connections implicit in nonlinear systems and digital machines. Steering a course beyond the old feminist dichotomies, Zeros + Ones is populated by a diverse chorus of voices - Anna Freud, Mary Shelley, Alan Turing - conceived as exploratory bundles of intelligent matter, emergent entities hacking through the constraints of their old programming and envisioning a postpatriarchal future.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-305).