Connecting Women

Women, Gender and ICT in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

AvValérie Schafer,Benjamin G. Thierry

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph. presents a comparative study of women in computing in France, Finland and the UK, revealing similar gender divisions within the ICT professions of these countries;

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-23
Mått:155 x 235 x 11 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:History of Computing
Antal sidor:174
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319364841

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Innehållsförteckning

Connecting Gender, Women and ICT in Europe.- Part I: Networks and Empowerment.- Telegraphy and the ‘New Woman’ in late Nineteenth Century Europe.- Airing the Differences.- From Marie-Claire Magazine’s Authoritative Pedagogy to the Hellocoton Blog Platform’s Knowledge Sharing.- Part II: Gendered Representations.- The Sylviac Affair (1904-1910).- The Representational Intertwinement of Gender, Age and Uses of Information and Communication Technology.- Part III: ICT and professionalization.- From Computing Girls to Data Processors.- The Gendering of the Computing Field in Finland, France and the United Kingdom Between 1960 and 1990.- Breaking the ‘Glass Slipper’.- Gender-Technology Relations in the Various Ages of Information Societies.