Making technology masculine

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"Ruth Oldenziel maps the historical process through which men laid claims to technology as their exclusive terrain. She also explores how women contested this ascendancy of the male discourse and engineered alternative plots. From the moral gymnasium of the shop floor to the staging grounds of World's Fairs, engineers, inventors, social scientists, activists, and novelists emplotted and questioned technology as our modern male myth. Oldenziel recounts the history of technology - both as intellectual construct and material practice - by analyzing these struggles. Drawing on a broad range of sources, she explains why male machines rather than female fabrics have become the modern markers of technology. She shows how technology developed as a narrative production of modern manliness, allowing women little room for negotiation."--Jacket.

subjects: Employment,  History,  Human-machine systems,  Labor,  Sexual division of labor,  Women,  Society & culture: general,  Machinery in the workplace,  United states, social conditions, 1865-1945,  Labor--history,  Labor--united states--history,  Labor--north america--history,  Human-machine systems--history,  Human-machine systems--united states--history,  Sexual division of labor--history,  Sexual division of labor--united states--history,  Women--employment--history,  Women--employment--united states--history,  Gender identity,  Technology,  Women--history,  Hd8072 .o57 1999

Places: North America,  United States