Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• STS.049J (Spring 2004) 
• Course Title:
• Technology and Gender in American History 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Science, Technology, and Society 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Deborah Fitzgerald 
• Course Introduction:
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  STS.049J Technology and Gender in American History
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2004

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a bibliography of all readings.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course centers on the changing relationships between men, women, and technology in American history. Topics include theories of gender, technologies of production and consumption, the gendering of public and private space, men's and women's roles in science and technology, the effects of industrialization on sexual divisions of labor, gender and identity at home and at work.