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Study Materials
Readings
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Readings from Gender and Technology may be found in: Mohun, Arwen, ed. Gender and Technology: A Reader. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780801872594.
| ses # | TOPICS | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Gender and History | McGaw, Judith. "No Passive Victims, No Separate Spheres: A Feminist Perspective on Technology's History." In In Context: History and the History of Technology. Edited by Stephen Cutcliffe and Robert Post. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1989, pp. 172-191. ISBN: 9780934223034. |
| 3 | How Technologies are Gendered I | McGaw, Judith. "Why Feminine Technologies Matter." In Gender and Technology, pp. 13-36. Oldenziel, Ruth. "Why Masculine Technologies Matter." In Gender and Technology, pp. 37-71. |
| 4 | How Technologies are Gendered II | Herzig, Rebecca. "Situated Technology: Meanings." In Gender and Technology, pp. 72-97. Maines, Rachel. "Situated Technology: Camoflage." In Gender and Technology, pp. 98-119. |
| 5 | Advertising Gender | Ewen, Stuart. Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of Consumer Culture. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1977. ISBN: 9780070198463. |
| 6 | Redefining Gender by Way of Technology: Workplaces | Lerman, Nina. "Industrial Genders: Constructing Boundaries." In Gender and Technology, pp. 123-152. Mohun, Arwen. "Industrial Genders: Home/Factory." In Gender and Technology, pp. 153-176. |
| 7 | Redefining Gender by Way of Technology: Workplaces (cont.) | Lipartito, Ken. "When Women Were Switches: Technology, Work and Gender in the Telephone Industry, 1890-1920." American Historical Review 99 (Oct. 1994): 1074-1111. Edwards, Paul. "Industrial Genders: Soft/Hard." In Gender and Technology, pp. 177-203. |
| 8-9 | Technology in the Home | Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1985. ISBN: 9780465047321. |
| 10 | Technology in the Home (cont.) | Finish More Work for Mother. |
| 11 | Women in Technology: Medicine | Saetnan, Ann Rudinow, Nelly Oudshoorn, and Marta Kirejczyk, eds. Bodies of Technology: Women's Involvement in Reproductive Medicine. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780814250501. |
| 12 | Midterm Exam | |
| 13 | Women and Engineering at MIT | Gibson, Lorna, et. al. "Report of the School of Engineering." Cambridge, MA: MIT, March 2002. (PDF) |
| 14 | Engineering and Masculinity I | Oldenziel, Ruth. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004, first half. ISBN: 9789053563816. |
| 15 | Engineering and Masculinity II | Finish Making Technology Masculine. |
| 16 | Women in Technology: Computers | Light, Jennifer. "Programming." In Gender and Technology. pp. 295-326. Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1997, selections. ISBN: 9780684833484. |
| 17 | Gender and Aviation | |
| 18 | Identity and Consumer Culture I | Peiss, Kathy. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1999, first half. ISBN: 9780805055511. |
| 19 | Identity and Consumer Culture II | Finish Hope in a Jar. |
| 20 | Automobility, Freedom, and Constraint I | Scharff, Virginia. Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. New York, NY: Free Press, 1992, first half. ISBN: 9780826313959. |
| 21 | Automobility, Freedom, and Constraint II | Finish Taking the Wheel. |
| 22 | Production and Consumption in Modern America | Horowitz, Roger, and Arwen Mohun, eds. His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1998, first half. ISBN: 9780813918020. |
| 23 | Production and Consumption in Modern America | Finish His and Hers. |
| 24-25 | Presentations |