"Doing it the hard way" : investigations of gender and technology

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"Doing it the hard way" : investigations of gender and technology

Sally L. Hacker ; edited by Dorothy E. Smith and Susan M. Turner

Unwin Hyman, 1990

  • : pbk.

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"Doing It the Hard Way" brings together the writings of the late Sally Hacker. More than simply a collection of essays, this volume includes a series of interviews conducted by sociologist-feminist Dorothy Smith during the last year of Sally Hacker's life. The book is thus a tribute to Sally Hacker's distinctive approach to issues of gender and technology; her integration of research with feminist activism; and her innovative methods of research.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Women, technology and the corporations: sex stratification, technology and organizational change - a longitudinal case study of AT farming out the home - women and the agribusiness
  • technological change and women's role in agribusiness - methods of research in social action. Part 2 Gender and the culture of technology: the culture of engineering - women, workplace and machines
  • engineering the shape of work
  • mathematization of engineering - limits on women in the field. Part 3 Technological change and the changing stratification of engineering
  • automators and automated - human and social effects of technological change
  • computers in the workplace - stratification and labour process among engineers and technicians. Part 4 Sexuality and technology - feminist/Left debates
  • the eye of the beholder - an essay on technology and eroticism.

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