Avoiding jargon and using well-chosen illustrations, Technology and Women's Voices assesses technological changes in terms of their impact on women's social lives.
Author(s): C. Kramarae
Edition: 1
Year: 1988
Language: English
Pages: 260
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Gotta Go Myrtle, Technology's at the Door......Page 13
Women's Voices/Men's Voices: Technology as Language......Page 24
Women Clerical Workers and the Typewriter: The Writing Machine......Page 35
Computational Reticence Why Women Fear the Intimate Machine......Page 45
'Who Needs a Personality to Talk to a Machine?' Communication in the Automated Office......Page 62
Chatting On a Feminist Computer Network......Page 78
Gender and Typographic Culture: Beginning to Unravel the 500-year Mystery......Page 91
Women on the Move: How Public is Public Transport?......Page 107
Putting Wheels on Women's Sphere......Page 125
Talk of Sewing Circles and Sweatshops......Page 136
'Washing, Seems It's All We Do': Washing Technology and Women's Communication......Page 148
Oral Traditions and the Advent of Electric Power......Page 166
Speaking Up: Voice Amplification and Women's Struggle for Public Expression......Page 172
Women and the Telephone the Gendering of a Communications Technology......Page 191
Notes on Contributors......Page 212
Index......Page 215
