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Pleasure, Power and Technology

Author : Sally Hacker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351995928
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Pleasure, Power and Technology written by Sally Hacker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are the pleasures of making things work turned into processes of domination? Are there links between gender and military institutions? Does eroticism have something to do with engineering? In this book, first published in 1989, Sally Hacker explores the answers to these and other provocative questions about our attitudes toward work and leisure. Drawing from her broad experience as a sociologist, feminist and student of engineering, Hacker helps us to understand the impact of technology on our society and how feminist principles can be used to make work life more egalitarian and more humane. In the first part of the book, the author examines various examples of the masculinization of power, ranging from military institutions to the mechanisation of farm labour, computer technology and affirmative action. In the second part, Hacker presents the results of her research on Mondragon, the world’s largest cooperative workplace, located in Spain. Hacker reaches surprising conclusions about gender and technology at Mondragon, where, in spite of the community’s egalitarian philosophy, gender inequality was as pervasive as in capitalist and socialist systems.

Masculinity, Power and Technology

Author : Ulf Mellström
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351919334
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Masculinity, Power and Technology written by Ulf Mellström and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on fieldwork carried out among male motor mechanics in the Chinese diaspora of Penang, Malaysia, this informative volume explores the links between technology and the masculinization of power. Malaysia shares an obsession with modernity by way of technological development and a "can do" entrepreneurial spirit where technology is held in high esteem. Technology holds such positive connotations in Malaysian society that it is therefore a source of individual and national empowerment. Technology and modernity are therefore important factors when understanding contemporary Malaysian society. Just as there is very much a masculine ethos pervading Malaysia's spirit and belief in modernity and progress, this insightful and rewarding book focuses on technology and machines in relation to masculinity to provide an innovative, anthropological perspective of Malaysian society and the Chinese diaspora.

Critical Communication Theory

Author : Sue Curry Jansen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742523739
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Critical Communication Theory written by Sue Curry Jansen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, Sue Curry Jansen brings a different perspective to contemporary communication inquiry. She engages two questions at the heart of critical politics of communication: what do we know? And how do we know it?

Power Button

Author : Rachel Plotnick
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262551950
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Power Button written by Rachel Plotnick and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when “technologies of the hand” proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control. Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button pushing—as an act of the finger and a binary activity (on/off, up/down)—Plotnick suggests that the tenets of precomputational digital command anticipate contemporary ideas of computer users. Plotnick discusses the uses of early push buttons to call servants, and the growing tensions between those who work with their hands and those who command with their fingers; automation as “automagic,” enabling command at a distance; instant gratification, and the victory of light over darkness; and early twentieth-century imaginings of a future push-button culture. Push buttons, Plotnick tells us, have demonstrated remarkable staying power, despite efforts to cast button pushers as lazy, privileged, and even dangerous.

Gender and Technology at Work

Author : Ellen Balka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009243713
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Technology at Work written by Ellen Balka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insights about how gender and technology interact at work framed from an ethical-political standpoint, aimed at achieving design justice.

Circles of Power

Author : Barbara Summerhawk
Publisher : New Victoria Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781892281135
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Circles of Power written by Barbara Summerhawk and published by New Victoria Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling study of the Southern Oregon Women's Community, one of the most vital and dynamic alternative communities to take root during America's back to the land movement of the 1970s. The editors provide an in-depth analysis of the roots, heart, and spirit of this lively and largely lesbian circle of women which extends from the border of Northern California up the I-5 corridor through Eugene, Oregon.

Gendered Marketing

Author : Maclaran, Pauline
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839108827
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Marketing written by Maclaran, Pauline and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing an in-depth exploration of the gendered nature of marketing theory and practice, this timely book unpacks the many ideological assumptions embedded in marketing thought and action.

Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values

Author : Steen Hyldgaard Christensen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319161725
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values written by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies and values. Key overlapping questions examine such issues as an engineering identity, engineering self-understandings enacted in the professional world, distinctive characters of engineering knowledge and how engineering science and engineering design interact in practice. Authors bring with them perspectives from their institutional homes in Europe, North America, Australia\ and Asia. The volume includes 24 contributions by more than 30 authors from engineering, the social sciences and the humanities. Additional issues the chapters scrutinize include prominent norms of engineering, how they interact with the values of efficiency or environmental sustainability. A concluding set of articles considers the meaning of context more generally by asking if engineers create their own contexts or are they created by contexts. Taken as a whole, this collection of original scholarly work is unique in its broad, multidisciplinary consideration of the changing character of engineering practice.

Consuming Technologies

Author : Eric Hirsch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134817576
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Technologies written by Eric Hirsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consuming Technologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world, and an explanation of the relationship between the domestic and public spheres as they are mediated by consumption and technology.

Virtual Gender

Author : Alison Adam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113457004X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Gender written by Alison Adam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As yet there has been relatively little published on women's activities in relation to new digital technologies. Virtual Gender brings together theoretical perspectives from feminist theory, the sociology of technology and gender studies with well designed empirical studies to throw new light on the impact of ICTs on contemporary social life. A line-up of authors from around the world looks at the gender and technology issues related to leisure, pleasure and consumption, identity and self. Their research is set against a backcloth of renewed interest in citizenship and ethics and how these concepts are recreated in an on-line situation, particularly in local settings. With chapters on subjects ranging from gender-switching on-line, computer games, and cyberstalking to the use of the domestic telephone, this stimulating collection challenges the stereotype of woman as a passive victim of technology. It offers new ways of looking at the many dimensions in which ICTs can be said to be gendered and will be a rich resource for students and teachers in this expanding field of study.

The Gender-Technology Relation

Author : Rosalind Gill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135340692
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Gender-Technology Relation written by Rosalind Gill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a review of contemporary theory and empirical research into the relationship between feminism and social constructivism. Through case studies, the book focuses on issues raised by different technologies and on developing theoretical understandings of the gender-technology relation.

Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts

Author : Booth, Shirley
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1615208143
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology: Social Constructs and Cultural Contexts written by Booth, Shirley and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book deals with diffe four features of the burgeoning knowledge society: gender, equity, learning, and information technology with the focus on gender - not in the taken-for-granted biological sense of sex but in the socially constituted sense of it"--Provided by publisher.

Routledge Library Editions: Women and Business

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351983954
Total Pages : 3998 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Women and Business written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 3998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 15-volume set of previously out-of-print tiles examines many aspects of women and business. Encompassing such as areas as women’s access to managerial positions, positions within trade unions, inequality, family life, role in family businesses and entrepreneurship, it is a remarkable collection and a vital business reference source.

Camming

Author : Angela Jones
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479815470
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Camming written by Angela Jones and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2021 Sexualities Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living The erotic webcam industry, also known as “camming,” is a thriving global business. Angela Jones takes readers inside this multi-billion dollar industry, revealing how its workers experience intimacy, community, empowerment—and, as she compellingly argues, pleasure. Drawing on in-depth interviews, survey data, web analytics, and more, Jones highlights not only the dangers, but also the rewards, of working in one of the most taboo corners of the Internet. She provides an inside look at the public and private shows between cam models and their customers, from exotic dancing and pornographic videos, to masturbation shows and erotic chatrooms. A fascinating, much-needed glimpse into the lives of cam models, Camming takes us behind the webcam lens to experience the power of erotic labor in the twenty-first century.

Handbook of Material Culture

Author : Christopher Y. Tilley
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781412900393
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Material Culture written by Christopher Y. Tilley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of things. This handbook charts an interdisciplinary field of studies that makes a fundamental contribution to an understanding of what it means to be human.

Writing the Public in Cyberspace

Author : Ann Travers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317733215
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Public in Cyberspace written by Ann Travers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular claims that new information technology will expand democratic and public spaces are problematic given the exclusive history of the public and the restriction of access to computer technology to elites. This book investigates patterns of behavior in a cybercommunity consisting of Americans and Canadians, and discusses the ways in which these so-called public spaces are likely to reshape the boundaries between social insiders and outsiders rather than eliminate them. Traverse analyses the ways in which the norms for participation within cyberspaces often play a role in undermining public tendencies, but notes that new information technologies provide educators, feminists, and other social groups concerned with broadening the inclusive nature of public spaces with unique opportunities. The book's final section explores current efforts by feminists on-line to expand public access for women and suggests further strategies for developing more genuinely inclusive public spaces. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon,1996; revised with new introduction, bibliography, and index)

Gender in Science and Technology

Author : Waltraud Ernst
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839424348
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Gender in Science and Technology written by Waltraud Ernst and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the application in interdisciplinary research, development and teaching. Topics range from the design of information and communication technologies, epistemologies of biology and chemistry to teaching mathematics and professional processes in engineering. Contributions by Anne Balsamo, Wendy Faulkner, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Barbara Orland, Els Rommes, and others.