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Gender and Technology: An Introduction

Gender and Technology: An Introduction

Kruse, Holly

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General Gender Studies

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ISBN10: 1509531440
ISBN13: 9781509531448
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: Feb 17 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.59
Language: English

Technology has advanced significantly over the past 200 years, but have ideas about gender and technology also changed over time? Are modern technologies gendered?

In this comprehensive text, Holly Kruse explores how notions of gender and technology have been socially constructed. Organized historically, the book provides a broad overview of global developments in technology and how these technologies have been (ideologically) gendered. Focusing on communication and media technologies and analysing an array of household and workplace devices, the text examines the ways in which they have been considered feminine or masculine. These associations, as the text reveals, often have little to do with the complexity of the technology. Rich with historical and contemporary examples - from bicycles and washing machines to the telegraph and the computer - Gender and Technology encourages us to take a closer look at how and why modern technologies are gendered. By understanding the origins of our ideas about gender and technology, we can see how they have and have not changed over time.

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