Judy Wajcman

Feminism Confronts Technology

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Feminism Confronts Technology provides a lively and engaging exploration of the impact of technology on women's lives from word processors to food processors, and genetic engineering to the design of cities. Comprehensive and critical, this book surveys the sociological and feminist literature on technology, highlighting the male bias in the way technology is defined as well as developed. Wajcman sets the scene with an overview of feminist theories of science and technology: encompassing the technologies of production and reproduction as well as domestic technology. The author challenges the common assumption that technology is gender neutral… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7456-7422-3
EAN: 9780745674223
Produktnummer: 16383078
Verlag: Wiley
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 194 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 21'544 KB

Über den Autor

Judy Wajcman's previous books include Women in Control (Open University Press, 1983). She is also the co-author of Women in Society (Virago, 1981) and co-editor of The Shaping of Technology (Virago, 1981).