| Description |
x, 465 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Interrogating Boundaries / Nina E. Lerman, Ruth Oldenziel and Arwen P. Mohun -- Pt. I. Entwined Categories: Gender Constructs Technology -- 1. Why Feminine Technologies Matter / Judith A. McGaw -- 2. Why Masculine Technologies Matter / Ruth Oldenziel -- 3. Situated Technology: Meanings / Rebecca Herzig -- 4. Situated Technology: Camouflage / Rachel P. Maines -- Pt. II. Entwined Categories: Technology Constructs Gender -- 5. Industrial Genders: Constructing Boundaries / Nina E. Lerman -- 6. Industrial Genders: Home/Factory / Arwen P. Mohun -- 7. Industrial Genders: Soft/Hard / Paul N. Edwards -- Pt. III. Industrial Junctions: Gendering Industrial Technologies -- 8. Cigarmaking / Patricia Cooper -- 9. Dressmaking / Wendy Gamber -- 10. Meatpacking / Roger Horowitz -- 11. Programming / Jennifer Light -- Pt. IV. Industrial Junctions: Technologies of Industrial Genders -- 12. Economics and Homes: Agency / Joy Parr -- 13. Home Economics: Mediators / Carolyn M. Goldstein |
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14. Home Ideologies: Progress? / Ronald R. Kline -- The Shoulders We Stand On/The View from Here: Historiography and Directions for Research / Nina E. Lerman, Arwen P. Mohun and Ruth Oldenziel |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sex role.
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Sexual division of labor.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Lerman, Nina E., 1961-
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Mohun, Arwen, 1961-
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Oldenziel, Ruth, 1958-
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| LC no. |
2002012553 |
| ISBN |
0801872596 |
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