Gender-technology relations : exploring stability and change / Hilde G. Corneliussen.
By: Corneliussen, Hilde.
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BookPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012Description: vii, 203 p. ; 9x5.5 HB.ISBN: 9781137582256 (hardback).Subject(s): Technology -- Philosophy | Technology -- Sociological aspects | Technology -- Sex differences | Electronic data processing -- Sex differences | Women in technology | Women in computer science | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies | SOCIAL SCIENCE / GeneralDDC classification: 303.482081 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-195) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Disrupting the Impression of Stability in Gender-Technology Relations -- Changing Images of Computers and its Users since 1980 -- Discursive Developments Within Computer Education -- Variations in Gender-ICT Relations Among Male and Female Computer Students -- Stories About Individual Change and Transformation -- Layered Meanings and Differences Within -- Is There an Elsewhere?
"Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and more recent discussions of gender in relation to computers and computing"--
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