This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.
Author(s): Swasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
Edition: New edition
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 376
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 11
List of contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Beyond the politics of difference: an introduction......Page 20
Information technology and working women's demands......Page 38
Feminist approaches to technology: women's values or a gender lens?......Page 63
Conflicting demands of new technology and household work: women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles......Page 89
Changes in textiles: implications for Asian women......Page 112
Information technology and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe: the case of Slovenia......Page 130
Restructuring and retraining: the Canadian garment industry in transition......Page 146
Computerization and women's employment in India's banking sector......Page 169
Information technology, gender and employment: a case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia......Page 196
Women in software programming: the experience of Brazil......Page 224
Something old, something new, something borrowed The electronics industry in Calcutta......Page 252
Women and information technology in sub-Saharan Africa: a topic for discussion?......Page 275
Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing: learning from international experience......Page 297
Using information technology as a mobilizing force: the case of The Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA)......Page 322
The fading of the collective dream? Reflections on twenty years' research on information technology and women's employment......Page 333
Afterword......Page 360
Index......Page 363
