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Making technology masculine: men, women, and modern machines in America, 1870-1945
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Abstract To say that technology is male comes as no surprise, but the claim that its history is a short one strikes a new note. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945 maps the historical process through which men laid claims to technology as their exclusive terrain... mehr
To say that technology is male comes as no surprise, but the claim that its history is a short one strikes a new note. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945 maps the historical process through which men laid claims to technology as their exclusive terrain. It also explores how women contested this ascendancy of the male discourse and engineered alternative plots. From the moral gymnasium of the shop floor to the staging grounds of World's Fairs, engineers, inventors, social scientists, activists, and novelists emplotted and questioned technology as our modern male myth. Oldenziel recounts the history of technology - both as intellectual construct and material practice - by analyzing these struggles. Drawing on a broad range of sources, she explains why male machines rather than female fabrics have become the modern markers of technology. She shows how technology developed as a narrative production of modern manliness, allowing women little room for negotiation.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
USA; Technikgeschichte; Mann; Frau; Technologie; Arbeit; Mensch-Maschine-System; Arbeitsteilung; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren
Klassifikation
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
1999
Verlag
Amsterdam Univ. Press
Erscheinungsort
Amsterdam
Seitenangabe
271 S.
ISBN
978-90-5356-381-6
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung