Technology and Women's Voices: Keeping in Touch

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Cheris Kramarae
Taylor & Francis Group, Dec 23, 2016 - Social Science - 258 pages
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.

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Technology and Women's Voices: Keeping in Touch
Cheris Kramarae
Limited preview - 2004
Technology and Women's Voices: Keeping in Touch
Cheris Kramarae
Limited preview - 2004
Technology and Women's Voices: Keeping in Touch
Cheris Kramarae
No preview available - 1988

About the author (2016)

Cheris Kramarae is Professor of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches courses in interpersonal communication, feminist theory and sociolinguistics. She is the author of over 30 articles on language and gender, and author, editor or co-editor of seven books on communication and feminist theory, including A Feminist Dictionary (Pandora Press, 1986), Language and Power (Sage, 1984), Language, Gender and Society (Newbury House, 1983), The Voices and Words of Women and Men (Pergamon Press, 1980) and Women and Men Speaking (Newbury House, 1981).

Bibliographic information

TitleTechnology and Women's Voices: Keeping in Touch
EditorCheris Kramarae
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group, 2016
ISBN1138178861, 9781138178861
Length258 pages
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Social Science / Media Studies
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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