Judy Wajcman 
Feminism Confronts Technology [PDF ebook] 

Feminism Confronts Technology provides a lively and engaging
exploration of the impact of technology on women’s lives from word
processors to food processors, and genetic engineering to the
design of cities. Comprehensive and critical, this book surveys the
sociological and feminist literature on technology, highlighting
the male bias in the way technology is defined as well as
developed. Wajcman sets the scene with an overview of feminist
theories of science and technology: encompassing the technologies
of production and reproduction as well as domestic technology.

The author challenges the common assumption that technology is
gender neutral, looking at whether technology can liberate women or
whether the new technologies are reinforcing sexual divisions in
society.

Table des matières

Acknowledgements.

Preface.

1. Feminist Critiques of Science and Technology.

2. The Technology of Production: Making a Job of Gender.

3. Reproductive Technology: Delivered into Men’s Hands.

4. Domestic Technology: Labour-saving or Enslaving?.

5. The Built Environment: Women’s Place, Gendered Space.

6. Technology as Masculine Culture.

Conclusion.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

A propos de l’auteur

Judy Wajcman’s previous books include Women in Control (Open University Press, 1983). She is also the co-author of Women in Society (Virago, 1981) and co-editor of The Shaping of Technology (Virago, 1981).