Technology and Women's Voices: Keeping in TouchCheris Kramarae Avoiding jargon and using well-chosen illustrations, Technology and Women's Voices assesses technological changes in terms of their impact on women's social lives. The contributors investigate women's talk as part of the technological environment in which it occurs, and argue that technology has made a lasting impact on women's communications. The articles trace the operations of several specific innovations - including electricity, the telephone, washing machine, car, sewing machine and computer. |
Contents
Gotta Go Myrtle Technologys at the Door | 1 |
Technology as Language | 12 |
The Writing Machine | 23 |
Computational Reticence Why Women Fear the Intimate Machine | 33 |
Who Needs a Personality to Talk to a Machine? Communication in the Automated Office | 50 |
Chatting On a Feminist Computer Network | 66 |
Beginning to Unravel the 500year Mystery | 79 |
How Public is Public Transport? | 95 |
Talk of Sewing Circles and Sweatshops | 124 |
Washing Technology and Womens Communication | 136 |
Oral Traditions and the Advent of Electric Power | 154 |
Voice Amplification and Womens Struggle for Public Expression | 160 |
Women and the Telephone the Gendering of a Communications Technology | 179 |
Notes on Contributors | 200 |
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Putting Wheels on Womens Sphere | 113 |
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