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9780415126878

Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415126878

  • ISBN10:

    0415126878

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1995-10-05
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This anthology contains essays written by thirteen leading scholars who analyze the ways the introduction of information technology affects the nature of paid work for women in the third world. Highlighting the difference in the interests and needs of different groups of women, this anthology challenges the validity of any monolithic, spcifically feminine vision of technology and science. Contributors affirm the view that instead of demanding an essentialist, ahistorical, universal, women-friendly technology, it will be more rewarding to study, in the context of the current technological revolution, the needs and experiences of groups of women in different societies. The anthology also features a powerful critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism by demonstrating that women in third world countries welcome modernization, so long as they can have some say in the manner in which the technology affects the quality of their working and family lives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. xvi
Beyond the Politics of Differencep. 1
Information Technology and Working Women's Demandsp. 19
Feminist Approaches to Technologyp. 44
Notesp. 66
Conflicting Demands of New Technology and Household Workp. 70
Notesp. 87
Changes in Textilesp. 93
Information Technology and Women's Employment in Manufacturing in Eastern Europep. 111
Restructuring and Retrainingp. 127
Notesp. 146
Computerization and Women's Employment in India's Banking Sectorp. 150
Notesp. 175
Information Technology, Gender and Employmentp. 177
Notesp. 202
Referencesp. 203
Women in Software Programmingp. 205
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed...the Electronics Industry in Calcuttap. 233
Notesp. 253
Women and Information Technology in Sub-Saharan Africap. 256
Gender Perspectives on Health and Safety in Information Processingp. 278
Notesp. 297
Using Information Technology as a Mobilizing Forcep. 303
Referencesp. 313
The Fading of the Collective Dream?p. 314
Notesp. 339
Afterwordp. 341
Indexp. 344
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