Research in Science and Technology Studies
Gender and Work
Published on 1. February 2001
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-7623-0568-1 (ISBN)
Description
The theme of this volume is gender and work in public and/or domestic domains including gender differences in the ideology and construction of domestic and/or public life. Approaches of the contributing authors are interdisciplinary as well as historical, anthropological, philosophical, literary, and sociological.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
725 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7623-0568-1 (9780762305681)
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Content
List of contributors. Gender and work: domestic and public spheres (D.G. Johnson, S. Gorenstein). The princess and the pea: touch and the private/public domains of women's knowledge (E.J. Esrock). Gender, workplace, and society: institutional interventions in textile production in Lagash and Lowell (R.P. Wright). Work for women: recuperating Charlotte Perkins Gilman's reform fiction (C. Colatrella). A "Distinct Contribution": gender, art, and scientific illustration in antebellum America (J.D. Marche II, T.A. Marche). Educating women for the feminine apparel industry: fashion design, dressmaking and domesticity, New York 1894-1950 (M. Donahue). Running somewhere between men and women: gender in the construction of the telegraph messenger boy (G. Downey). The emblematic kitchen: labor-saving technology as national propaganda: the USA 1939-1959 (C. Henthorn). Engendering technology: culture, gender, and work (J.L. Croissant). Skill as a complex gendered concept: a quantitative study of women, information work, and technology (J. Clarke). Quilting space: alternative models for architectural and construction practice (F. Bronet). Producing public and private on an engineering campus (K.L. Tonso). Women engineers and the transformation of the engineering profession in Sweden today (B. Berner). Therapeutic touch and postmodernism in nursing (S. Glazer).