Sheila Rowbotham (ed.)

Women Encounter Technology

Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
Herausgeber: Mitter, Swasti; Rowbotham, Sheila

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9780415126878
• ISBN-10: 0415126878
• Artikelnr.: 21314585

Autorenporträt

Swasti Mitter is the Deputy Director of the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU/INTECH), Maastricht, the Netherlands, and holds the Chair of Gender and Technology Studies at the University of Brighton, UK. Sheila Rowbotham has written extensively on women in history and the contemporary position of women. She is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester and an Honorary Fellow in Women's Studies at the University of North London.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Beyond the politics of difference: an introduction 2 Information
technology and working women's demands 3 Feminist approaches to technology:
women's values or a gender lens? 4 Conflicting demands of new technology
and household work: women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles 5
Changes in textiles: implications for Asian women 6 Information technology
and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe: the case of
Slovenia 7 Restructuring and retraining: the Canadian garment industry in
transition 8 Computerization and women's employment in India's banking
sector 9 Information technology, gender and employment: a case study of the
telecommunications industry in Malaysia 10 Women in software programming:
the experience of Brazil 11 Something old, something new, something
borrowed...The electronics industry in Calcutta 12 Women and information
technology in sub-Saharan Africa: a topic for discussion? 13 Gender
perspectives on health and safety in information processing: learning from
international experience 14 Using information technology as a mobilizing
force: the case of The Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA) 15 The
fading of the collective dream? Reflections on twenty years' research on
information technology and women's employment