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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793348303321

Autore

Blair Kristine L.

Titolo

Technofeminist storiographies : women, information technology, and cultural representation / / by Kristine L. Blair

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-4985-9304-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 137 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Communicating Gender

Disciplina

604.82

Soggetti

Technology and women

Technology and women - History

Technology and women - Social aspects

Technology - Sociological aspects

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Parallel Lives and the Recovery of Women in the (His)Story of Computing -- Distinguishing Rhetoric from Reality in Early Computing Culture -- Bridging the Technological Gender Gap On and Off the Screen -- Gender Play and the Marketing of Misogyny -- Sustaining a Technofeminist Future for Women and Girls.

Sommario/riassunto

This book recovers both historical and contemporary accounts of women's lived experiences of technology, from Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr to women working in the tech industry today, juxtaposing those stories with larger cultural representations of women and technology.