Suggested Readings in Gender and Technology

See also this cool online exhibit,
"Powering the Electrical Revolution,"
from the IEEE Virtual Museum

Balsomo, Anne. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. 1994. Duke University Press

Bromley, Hank and Michael W. Apple (eds). Education/Technology/Power: Educational Computing as a Social Process. NY: State University of New York Press.

Cassell, Justine and Henry Jenkins (eds). 1998. From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cockburn, Cynthia and Susan Ormrod. Gender and Technology in the Making. 1993. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Cockburn, Cynthia. Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men, and Technical Know-how. 1988. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. 1983. NY: Basic Books.

Cutcliffe, Stephen H. and Robert C. Post (eds). In Context: History and the History of Technology. 1989. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press.

Everts, Saskia. Gender & Technology: Empowering Women, Engendering Development. 1998. New York: Zed Books.

Faulkner, Wendy, and Erik Arnold (eds). Smothered by Invention: Technology in Women's Lives. 1985. London: Pluto Press.

Freeman, Carla. High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean. 2000. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Haraway, Donna. Modest Women@Second Millennium FemaleMan@Meets_Oncomouse™. 1997. NY: Routledge

Hartouni, Valerie. Cultural Conceptions: On Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Life. 1997. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Hess, David J. Science and Technology in a Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts. 1995. NY: Columbia University Press.

Hopkins, Patrick D. (ed). Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology. 1998. Bloomington: IU Press.

Horowitz, Roger (ed). Boys and their Toys? Masculinity, Class and Technology in America. 2001. New York: Routledge.

Kramarae, Cheris (ed). Technology and Women's Voices: Keeping in Touch. 1988. NY: Routledge.

Leonard, Eileen B. Women, Technology, and the Myth of Progress. 2003. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Lock, Margaret and Patricia Kaufert. Pragmatic Women and Body Politics. 1998. NY: Cambridge University Press.

MacKenzie, Donald and Judy Wajcman, eds. The Social Shaping of Technology. Second Edition. 1999. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Maines, Rachel P. The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction. 1999. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.

Oldenziel, Ruth. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America 1870-1945. 1999. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Pena, Devon G. The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border. 1997. Austin, Texas: CMAS Books.

Rabinow, Paul (ed). Foucalt: Ethics Subjectivity,and Truth. 1997. 

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