Feminism Confronts Technology

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Feminism Confronts Technology provides a lively and engagingexploration of the impact of technology on women's lives from wordprocessors to food processors, and genetic engineering to thedesign of cities. Comprehensive and critical, this book surveys thesociological and feminist literature on technology, highlightingthe male bias in the way technology is defined as well asdeveloped. Wajcman sets the scene with an overview of feministtheories of science and technology: encompassing the technologiesof production and reproduction as well as domestic technology. The author challenges the common assumption that technology isgender neutral, looking at whether technology can liberate women orwhether the new technologies are reinforcing sexual divisions insociety.

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Judy Wajcman

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'The comprehensive and accessible nature of the book makes itparticularly suitable as a textbook in this growing field.'Donald Mackenzie, Department of Sociology, University ofEdinburgh 'A useful and accessible contribution to current debates aboutthe connections between gender, technology and society.' NewTechnology, Work and Employment 'This book will be of considerable interest to anyone working inscientific and technical institutions facing difficulties, whethercrises in funding or in communication between science andgovernment, science and industry, science and the public.' TheNew Scientist 'A most welcome work that addresses precisely this issue of howgender can be registered as significant in the making oftechnologies... It is a text that will, hopefully, be widely readby undergraduate students.' Social Studies of Science 'Feminism Confronts Technology brings together animpressive array of feminist work on technology.' ArenaMagazine 'Wajcman's book fills an important gap in the 'gender andtechnology' literature.' Feminist Review
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