Nattering on the Net

by Spender, Dale

• ISBN13: 9781875559091
• ISBN10: 1875559094
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-07-28
• Publisher: Spinifex Press

Summary

Dale Spender is a whole-hearted convert to computing and cyberspace, but she has her concerns. How much will the Internet live up to its potential for improving the world and how much will it reinforce the gender power imbalances of the past and present? This book is about people more than computers. Her special focus is women, and what needs to be understood and done to build a more reasonable and equitable community in cyberspace -- and the rest of the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	xiii
Print	1	(30)
Monks and Manuscripts	1	(8)
Professional, White, Male Standard	9	(3)
Spelling It Out	12	(3)
The Glory of Grammar	15	(3)
He/Man Hoax	18	(4)
Dictionary Distortions	22	(9)
The Claims of Literature	31	(14)
Exploding the Canon	31	(3)
Rules of the Game	34	(3)
Downfall and Dirty Tricks	37	(8)
Readers	45	(22)
The Professional Reader	45	(3)
The Growth of the Reading Public	48	(3)
Literary Crisis	51	(6)
Books	57	(10)
Authors	67	(32)
The Birth of the Author	67	(10)
The Death of the Author	77	(22)
Education	99	(48)
From Factory Model to Cyberspace	99	(11)
Schools	110	(10)
Electronic Scholarship	120	(17)
Universities	137	(10)
Libraries	147	(14)
Public or Profit?	147	(8)
Indexing	155	(6)
Women, Power and Cyberspace	161	(88)
Been There, Done That!	161	(4)
The Gender Gap	165	(28)
Male Menace on the Superhighway	193	(30)
What's Good for the Goose Doesn't Apply to the Gander	223	(4)
Women's Way	227	(22)
Conclusion	249	(12)
Bibliography	261	(10)
Index	271