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"Although few dispute the computer's place as a pivotal twentieth-century artefact, little agreement has emerged over whether the changes it has precipitated are generally positive or negative in nature, or whether we should be contemplating our future association with the computer more wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Woodfield, Ruth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Women electronic data processing personnel > Supply and demand > Forecasting.
Informatique > Personnel féminin > Offre et demande > Prévision.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Vrouwen.
Computers.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • g1. The myth of the neutral computer
  • 2. Computers, communication and change
  • 3. Softech: a 'twenty-first-century organisation'
  • 4. Male and female pathways through the unit
  • 5. Hybrids and hierarchies
  • 6. Understanding the relationship between gender and skill
  • 7. The female future and new subjectivities
  • Conclusion: is the future female?

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