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The essays selected for this volume cover a well-distributed range of subjects, bringing history of technology and gender studies together with studies of consumerism, labor, production, race, and other topics. The pieces included are well-written, thought-provoking, and frequently just plain enjoyable. The collection will serve valuable scholarly purpose, helping both to establish where research on the relationship between gender and history of technology currently stands and to suggest promising directions for future work. -- Amy Bix, Iowa State University This excellent anthology should become a standard source for those interested in the history of gender and technology, as well as a widely used text for courses in gender studies. The selection of articles is brilliant. The volume is grounded in the mature historical scholarship published in Technology and Culture, and significantly strengthened by the inclusion of key articles from other sources. -- Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Interrogating Boundaries
Part I: Entwined Categories: Gender Constructs Technology
Chapter 1. Why Feminine Technologies Matter
Chapter 2. Why Masculine Technologies Matter
Chapter 3. Situated Technology: Meanings
Chapter 4. Situated Technology: Camouflage
Part II: Entwined Categories: Technology Constructs Gender
Chapter 5. Industrial Genders: Constructing Boundaries
Chapter 6. Industrial Genders: Home/Factory
Chapter 7. Industrial Genders: Soft/Hard
Part III: Industrial Junctions: Gendering Industrial Technologies
Chapter 8. Cigarmaking
Chapter 9. Dressmaking
Chapter 10. Meatpacking
Chapter 11. Programming
Part IV: Industrial Junctions: Technologies of Industrial Genders
Chapter 12. Economics and Homes: Agency
Chapter 13. Home EconomiesL Mediators
Chapter 14. Home Ideologies: Progress?
The Shoulders We Stand On/The View From Here: Historiography and Directions For Research
Instructor's Notes on Organization
List of Contributors
Index

About the Author

Nina E. Lerman is an associate professor of history at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Ruth Oldenziel is an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. Arwen P. Mohun is an associate professor of history at the University of Delaware.

Reviews

"This excellent anthology should become a standard source for those interested in the history of gender and technology, as well as a widely used text for courses in gender studies."

"Well-written, thought-provoking, and frequently just plain enjoyable, the pieces in this collection will serve valuable scholarly purpose, helping both to establish where research on the relationship between gender and history of technology currently stands and to suggest promising directions for future work."