Full Description
Avoiding jargon and using well-chosen illustrations, Technology and Women's Voices assesses technological changes in terms of their impact on women's social lives. The contributors investigate women's talk as part of the technological environment in which it occurs, and argue that technology has made a lasting impact on women's communications. The articles trace the operations of several specific innovations - including electricity, the telephone, washing machine, car, sewing machine and computer.
Contents
PREFACE; Gotta go Myrtle, technology's at the door; Women's voices/men's voices: technology as language; Women clerical workers and the typewriter: the writing machine; Computational reticence: why women fear the intimate machine; 'Who needs a personality to talk to a machine?': communication in the automated office; Chatting on a feminist computer network; Gender and typographic culture: beginning to unravel the 500-year Mystery; Women on the move: how public is public transport? Women and Transport Forum. Putting wheels on women's sphere; Talk of sewing circles and sweatshops; 'Washing, seems it's all we do': washing technology and women's Communication; Oral traditions and the advent of electric power; Speaking up: voice amplification and women's struggle for public Expression; Women and the telephone: the gendering of a communications technology
