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Mitter / Rowbotham

Women Encounter Technology

Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-415-12687-8
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungstermin: 14.09.1995
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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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780415126878
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-12687-8
  • Verlag: Routledge
  • Erscheinungstermin: 14.09.1995
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 1995
  • Serie: UNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 661 g
  • Seiten: 374
  • Format (B x H x T): 145 x 222 x 26 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

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