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This study of science and technology looks at knowledge systems.
Topics covered include: mapping encounters and (en)countering maps
- a critical examination of cartographic resistance; the
intricacies of technology transfer - travel as mode and method; and
science, local knowledge and community.
This volume presents discussions of material culture and society.
It offers a perspective that recognizes technology as material
culture, that is, as manufactured things spawned by a community amd
as characteristic of it as its language, behaviour and oral and
written knowledge. The chapter "Progress in Separate Spheres"
addresses the relationship between the theme of progress and
material culture through advertising. Another chapter analyzes the
computer and points out that the physical attributes of the machine
make it an enigma which cannot be revealed by disassembling its
working parts, but must be discovered through the mental
comprehension of its processes. Two papers discuss the introduction
of technologies to communities from different perspectives. The
volume ends with a paper on human automata, an example of an object
in which technology and humanity confront each other.
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Feminist Technology (Paperback)
Linda Layne, Sharra Vostral, Kate Boyer; Contributions by Jennifer Aengst, Maia Boswell-Penc, …
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R672
Discovery Miles 6 720
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Is there such a thing as a "feminist technology"? If so, what makes
a technology feminist? Is it in the design process, in the thing
itself, in the way it is marketed, or in the way it is used by
women (or by men)? In this collection, feminist scholars trained in
diverse fields consider these questions by examining a range of
products, tools, and technologies that were specifically designed
for and marketed to women. Evaluating the claims that such products
are liberating for women, the contributors focus on case studies of
menstrual-suppressing birth control pills, home pregnancy tests,
tampons, breast pumps, Norplant, anti-fertility vaccines, and
microbicides. In examining these various products, this volume
explores ways of actively intervening to develop better tools for
designing, promoting, and evaluating feminist technologies.
Recognizing the different needs and desires of women and
acknowledging the multiplicity of feminist approaches, "Feminist
Technology" offers a sustained debate on existing and emergent
technologies that share the goal of improving women's lives.
Contributors are Jennifer Aengst, Maia Boswell-Penc, Kate Boyer,
Frances Bronet, Shirley Gorenstein, Anita Hardon, Deborah G.
Johnson, Linda L. Layne, Deana McDonagh, and Sharra L. Vostral.
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