Connecting Women (eBook)

Women, Gender and ICT in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

Valérie Schafer, Benjamin G. Thierry (Herausgeber)

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2015 | 1st ed. 2015
XVI, 174 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-20837-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph. Features: describes how gendered networks have formed around ICT since the late 19th Century; reviews the gendered issues revealed by the conflict between the actress Ms Sylviac and the French telephone administration in 1904, or by 'feminine' blogs; examines how gender representations, age categories, and uses of ICT interact and are mutually formed in children's magazines; illuminates the participation of women in the early days of computing, through a case study on the Rothamsted Statistics Department; presents a comparative study of women in computing in France, Finland and the UK, revealing similar gender divisions within the ICT professions of these countries; discusses diversity interventions and the part that history could (and should) play to ensure women do not take second place in specific occupational sectors.

Inhalt

Connecting Gender, Women and ICT in Europe: A Long-Term PerspectiveValérie Schafer and Benjamin G. ThierryPart I: Networks and EmpowermentDelphine Diaz and Regis SchlagdenhauffenTelegraphy and the ‘New Woman’ in late Nineteenth Century EuropeSimone M. MüllerAiring the Differences: An Approach to the Role of Women in the Spanish Free Radio Movement (1976-2014)José Emilio Pérez MartínezFrom Marie-Claire Magazine’s Authoritative Pedagogy to the Hellocoton Blog Platform’s Knowledge Sharing: Between Gender Construction and Gender AppropriationAlexie GeersPart II: Gendered RepresentationsDelphine Diaz and Regis SchlagdenhauffenThe Sylviac Affair (1904-1910), or Joan of Arc vs. the ‘Demoiselles du Téléphone’Dominique PinsolleThe Representational Intertwinement of Gender, Age and Uses of Information and Communication Technology: A Comparison Between German and French Preteen MagazinesMarion Dalibert and Simona De IulioPart III: ICT and professionalizationDelphine Diaz and Regis SchlagdenhauffenFrom Computing Girls to Data Processors: Women Assistants in the Rothamsted Statistics DepartmentGiuditta ParoliniThe Gendering of the Computing Field in Finland, France and the United Kingdom Between 1960 and 1990Chantal Morley and Martina McDonnellBreaking the ‘Glass Slipper’: What Diversity Interventions Can Learn from the Historical Evolution of Occupational Identity in ICT and Commercial AviationKaren Lee Ashcraft and Catherine AshcraftGender-Technology Relations in the Various Ages of Information SocietiesDelphine Gardey

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.10.2015
• Reihe/Serie: History of Computing
• Reihe/Serie: History of Computing
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 174 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Schlagworte: Gender • History of Computing • ICT • media history • Women
• ISBN-10: 3-319-20837-3 / 3319208373
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-20837-4 / 9783319208374