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Technofeminist Storiographies : Women, Information Technology, and Cultural Representation.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington Books,
2018.
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| Colección: | Communicating gender.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Parallel Lives and the Recovery of Women in the (His)Story of Computing; Interrogating CulturalAssumptions about Women and Technology; Recovering Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr; Conclusion: Re-Telling the Story; 2 Distinguishing Rhetoric from Reality in Early Computing Culture; The Perception of Women's Roles: Now and Then; Dramatizing Early Computer Culture; Women's Programmed/Programming Lives; Grace Hopper: Queen or Pirate; Conclusion: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due; 3 Bridging the Technological Gender Gap On and Off the Screen
- The Steve Jobs MythosThe Social Network; The Challenges of Leaning In; Silicon Valley: Art Imitates Life?; Conclusion: Making the Problem Visible; 4 Gender Play and the Marketing of Misogyny; Still Trying to "Disrupt the Pink Aisle"; Gender Trouble in Silicon Valley; Technofeminist Remix Pedagogies; The Shared Search for Our Inner Wonder Woman; Creating a Counter Narrative; One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?; Conclusion:Confronting the Princess Problem; 5 Sustaining a Technofeminist Future for Women and Girls; No Time Like the Present?; Technofeminist Re-Codes; Technofeminist Back-Talk; Coda