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McGaw; Joy Parr, Simon Fraser University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Interrogating Boundaries
Part I: Entwined Categories: Gender Constructs Technology
Chapter 1. Why Feminine Technologies Matter
Chapter 2. Why Masculine Technologies Matter
Chapter 3. Situated Technology: Meanings
Chapter 4. Situated Technology: Camouflage
Part II: Entwined Categories: Technology Constructs Gender
Chapter 5. Industrial Genders: Constructing Boundaries
Chapter 6. Industrial Genders: Home/Factory
Chapter 7. Industrial Genders: Soft/Hard
Part III: Industrial Junctions: Gendering Industrial Technologies
Chapter 8. Cigarmaking
Chapter 9. Dressmaking
Chapter 10. Meatpacking
Chapter 11. Programming
Part IV: Industrial Junctions: Technologies of Industrial Genders
Chapter 12. Economics and Homes: Agency
Chapter 13. Home EconomiesL Mediators
Chapter 14. Home Ideologies: Progress?
The Shoulders We Stand On/The View From Here: Historiography and Directions For Research
Instructor's Notes on Organization
List of Contributors
Index

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 10/12/2003
      ISBN13: 9780801872594, 978-0801872594
      ISBN10: 0801872596

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      McGaw; Joy Parr, Simon Fraser University.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Interrogating Boundaries
      Part I: Entwined Categories: Gender Constructs Technology
      Chapter 1. Why Feminine Technologies Matter
      Chapter 2. Why Masculine Technologies Matter
      Chapter 3. Situated Technology: Meanings
      Chapter 4. Situated Technology: Camouflage
      Part II: Entwined Categories: Technology Constructs Gender
      Chapter 5. Industrial Genders: Constructing Boundaries
      Chapter 6. Industrial Genders: Home/Factory
      Chapter 7. Industrial Genders: Soft/Hard
      Part III: Industrial Junctions: Gendering Industrial Technologies
      Chapter 8. Cigarmaking
      Chapter 9. Dressmaking
      Chapter 10. Meatpacking
      Chapter 11. Programming
      Part IV: Industrial Junctions: Technologies of Industrial Genders
      Chapter 12. Economics and Homes: Agency
      Chapter 13. Home EconomiesL Mediators
      Chapter 14. Home Ideologies: Progress?
      The Shoulders We Stand On/The View From Here: Historiography and Directions For Research
      Instructor's Notes on Organization
      List of Contributors
      Index

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