Full Description
A new book offering a broad overview of the debates about technologies and gender relations at work in a range of occupational areas. Innovative in its approach it deals with gender relations in terms of the ways in which they influence the design and development of technologies, and how gender relations are themselves shaped by technologies. The book will draw heavily on the theoretical perspective looking at the ways in which sexual divisions of labour and gender relations in the workplace profoundly affect the direction and pace of technological change, and tracks the development of certain technologies showing how, through their evolution, they embody these social relations.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
The Terrain of this Book
Perspectives on Women's Work and Technology
Gender Relations in the Shaping of Technologies
Information and Communication Technologies and the Shaping of Women's Employment
Secretaries and Seamstresses, Clerks and Cashiers - Information Technologies and Women's Labour Processes
Women in Systems Design - Values, Methods and Artefacts
The Lessons of Feminist Research on Women's Work and IT
Reference Index
