Dynamos And Virgins Revisited
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Dynamos And Virgins Revisited
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Author : Martha Moore Trescott
language : en
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 1979
Dynamos And Virgins Revisited written by Martha Moore Trescott and has been published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
One of the first books published on the history of women and technology this text laid the groundwork for decades of impressive and increasing scholarship in this field. An edited collection of eleven essays based on scholarly research, it explores many of the ways women have affected technological change historically and how technology has impinged on them. Both European and American topics, from the eighteenth century into the twentieth, are included, although the United States in the last 100 years is the focus.
Dynamos And Virgins Revisited
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Author : Martha Moore Trescott
language : en
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 1979
Dynamos And Virgins Revisited written by Martha Moore Trescott and has been published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
One of the first books published on the history of women and technology this text laid the groundwork for decades of impressive and increasing scholarship in this field. An edited collection of eleven essays based on scholarly research, it explores many of the ways women have affected technological change historically and how technology has impinged on them. Both European and American topics, from the eighteenth century into the twentieth, are included, although the United States in the last 100 years is the focus.
Harriet Brooks
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Author : Marelene F. Rayner-Canham
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1994
Harriet Brooks written by Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Chronicles the education and career of Canadian theoretical physicist Brooks (1876-1933), who worked with Ernest Rutherford at McGill University, with Marie Curie in Paris, and at universities in the US. Emphasizes her struggles as a woman in the field. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Fabric Of Interface
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Author : Stephen Monteiro
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2017-11-10
The Fabric Of Interface written by Stephen Monteiro and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-10 with Social Science categories.
Tracing the genealogy of our physical interaction with mobile devices back to textile and needlecraft culture. For many of our interactions with digital media, we do not sit at a keyboard but hold a mobile device in our hands. We turn and tilt and stroke and tap, and through these physical interactions with an object we make things: images, links, sites, networks. In The Fabric of Interface, Stephen Monteiro argues that our everyday digital practice has taken on traits common to textile and needlecraft culture. Our smart phones and tablets use some of the same skills—manual dexterity, pattern making, and linking—required by the handloom, the needlepoint hoop, and the lap-sized quilting frame. Monteiro goes on to argue that the capacity of textile metaphors to describe computing (weaving code, threaded discussions, zipped files, software patches, switch fabrics) represents deeper connections between digital communication and what has been called “homecraft” or “women's work.” Connecting networked media to practices that seem alien to media technologies, Monteiro identifies handicraft and textile techniques in the production of software and hardware, and cites the punched cards that were read by a loom's rods as a primitive form of computer memory; examines textual and visual discourses that position the digital image as a malleable fabric across its production, access, and use; compares the digital labor of liking, linking, and tagging to such earlier forms of collective production as quilting bees and piecework; and describes how the convergence of intimacy and handiwork at the screen interface, combined with needlecraft aesthetics, genders networked culture and activities in unexpected ways.
Melodrama And Modernity
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Author : Ben Singer
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2001-04-05
Melodrama And Modernity written by Ben Singer and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-05 with Performing Arts categories.
In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and the era that spawned it. Singer looks back to the sensational or "blood and thunder" melodramas (e.g., The Perils of Pauline, The Hazards of Helen, etc.) and uncovers a fundamentally modern cultural expression, one reflecting spectacular transformations in the sensory environment of the metropolis, in the experience of capitalism, in the popular imagination of gender, and in the exploitation of the thrill in popular amusement. Written with verve and panache, and illustrated with 100 striking photos and drawings, Singer's study provides an invaluable historical and conceptual map both of melodrama as a genre on stage and screen and of modernity as a pivotal idea in social theory.
Ecologies Of Knowledge
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Author : Susan Leigh Star
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1995-07-06
Ecologies Of Knowledge written by Susan Leigh Star and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07-06 with Social Science categories.
Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on the role of materials, feminism, "nonhumans," and work practices as shaping scientific and technical knowledge. In addition to theoretical contributions, the authors cover biotechnology, computing, representations and space, aerospace engineering, and a variety of ethical perspectives and controversies in these domains.
Women Of Science
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Author : Gabriele Kass-Simon
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1993
Women Of Science written by Gabriele Kass-Simon and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Science categories.
Women of Science is a collection of essays dealing with contributions women have made to various scientific disciplines, written by women scientists in those disciplines. The areas covered are: astronomy, archaeology, biology, chemistry, crystallography, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics. The women who have written these essays are, for the most part, not professional historians, but rather scientific professionals who felt the necessity of researching the contributions women have made to the devlopment of their fields. The essays are unique, not only because they recover lost women who made significant contributions to their disciplines, but also because they are written with a depth of understanding that only a scientist working in a specific area can have. The essays will be of interest not only to students (especially women students) of science who may be unaware of the many contributions women have made, but also to readers of the history of science whoses texts more often than not fail to include the work of most women scientists.
Women At Work In Preindustrial France
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Author : Daryl M. Hafter
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Women At Work In Preindustrial France written by Daryl M. Hafter and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Encyclopedia Of Aluminum And Its Alloys Two Volume Set Print
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Author : George E. Totten
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2018-12-07
Encyclopedia Of Aluminum And Its Alloys Two Volume Set Print written by George E. Totten and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-07 with Science categories.
This encyclopedia, written by authoritative experts under the guidance of an international panel of key researchers from academia, national laboratories, and industry, is a comprehensive reference covering all major aspects of metallurgical science and engineering of aluminum and its alloys. Topics covered include extractive metallurgy, powder metallurgy (including processing), physical metallurgy, production engineering, corrosion engineering, thermal processing (processes such as metalworking and welding, heat treatment, rolling, casting, hot and cold forming), surface engineering and structure such as crystallography and metallography.
How Users Matter
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Author : Nelly Oudshoorn
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2005-08-12
How Users Matter written by Nelly Oudshoorn and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-12 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Users have become an integral part of technology studies. The essays in this volume look at the creative capacity of users to shape technology in all phases, from design to implementation. Using a variety of theoretical approaches, including a feminist focus on users and use (in place of the traditional emphasis on men and machines), concepts from semiotics, and the cultural studies view of consumption as a cultural activity, these essays examine what users do with technology and, in turn, what technology does to users. The contributors consider how users consume, modify, domesticate, design, reconfigure, and resist technological development—and how users are defined and transformed by technology. The essays in part I show that resistance to and non-use of a technology can be a crucial factor in the eventual modification and improvement of that technology; examples considered include the introduction of the telephone into rural America and the influence of non-users of the Internet. The essays in part II look at advocacy groups and the many kinds of users they represent, particularly in the context of health care and clinical testing. The essays in part III examine the role of users in different phases of the design, testing, and selling of technology. Included here is an enlightening account of one company's design process for men's and women's shavers, which resulted in a "Ladyshave" for users assumed to be technophobes. Taken together, the essays in How Users Matter show that any understanding of users must take into consideration the multiplicity of roles they play—and that the conventional distinction between users and producers is largely artificial.