Pleasure Power And Technology
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Pleasure Power And Technology
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Author : Sally Hacker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-01-06
Pleasure Power And Technology written by Sally Hacker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-06 with Business & Economics categories.
How are the pleasures of making things work turned into processes of domination? Are there links between gender and military institutions? Does eroticism have something to do with engineering? In this book, first published in 1989, Sally Hacker explores the answers to these and other provocative questions about our attitudes toward work and leisure. Drawing from her broad experience as a sociologist, feminist and student of engineering, Hacker helps us to understand the impact of technology on our society and how feminist principles can be used to make work life more egalitarian and more humane. In the first part of the book, the author examines various examples of the masculinization of power, ranging from military institutions to the mechanisation of farm labour, computer technology and affirmative action. In the second part, Hacker presents the results of her research on Mondragon, the world’s largest cooperative workplace, located in Spain. Hacker reaches surprising conclusions about gender and technology at Mondragon, where, in spite of the community’s egalitarian philosophy, gender inequality was as pervasive as in capitalist and socialist systems.
Packaged Pleasures
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Author : Gary S. Cross
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-09-30
Packaged Pleasures written by Gary S. Cross and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Business & Economics categories.
From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned, condensed, and distilled, unleashing new and intensified surges of pleasure, delight, thrill—and addiction. In Packaged Pleasures, Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor delve into an uncharted chapter of American history, shedding new light on the origins of modern consumer culture and how technologies have transformed human sensory experience. In the space of only a few decades, junk foods, cigarettes, movies, recorded sound, and thrill rides brought about a revolution in what it means to taste, smell, see, hear, and touch. New techniques of boxing, labeling, and tubing gave consumers virtually unlimited access to pleasures they could simply unwrap and enjoy. Manufacturers generated a seemingly endless stream of sugar-filled, high-fat foods that were delicious but detrimental to health. Mechanically rolled cigarettes entered the market and quickly addicted millions. And many other packaged pleasures dulled or displaced natural and social delights. Yet many of these same new technologies also offered convenient and effective medicines, unprecedented opportunities to enjoy music and the visual arts, and more hygienic, varied, and nutritious food and drink. For better or for worse, sensation became mechanized, commercialized, and, to a large extent, democratized by being made cheap and accessible. Cross and Proctor have delivered an ingeniously constructed history of consumerism and consumer technology that will make us all rethink some of our favorite things.
Masculinity Power And Technology
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Author : Ulf Mellström
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Masculinity Power And Technology written by Ulf Mellström and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on fieldwork carried out among male motor mechanics in the Chinese diaspora of Penang, Malaysia, this informative volume explores the links between technology and the masculinization of power. Malaysia shares an obsession with modernity by way of technological development and a "can do" entrepreneurial spirit where technology is held in high esteem. Technology holds such positive connotations in Malaysian society that it is therefore a source of individual and national empowerment. Technology and modernity are therefore important factors when understanding contemporary Malaysian society. Just as there is very much a masculine ethos pervading Malaysia's spirit and belief in modernity and progress, this insightful and rewarding book focuses on technology and machines in relation to masculinity to provide an innovative, anthropological perspective of Malaysian society and the Chinese diaspora.
Critical Communication Theory
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Author : Sue Curry Jansen
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2002
Critical Communication Theory written by Sue Curry Jansen and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this text, Sue Curry Jansen brings a different perspective to contemporary communication inquiry. She engages two questions at the heart of critical politics of communication: what do we know? And how do we know it?
Gender And Technology At Work
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Author : Ellen Balka
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-31
Gender And Technology At Work written by Ellen Balka and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-31 with Computers categories.
Insights about how gender and technology interact at work framed from an ethical-political standpoint, aimed at achieving design justice.
Circles Of Power
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Author : Barbara Summerhawk
language : en
Publisher: New Victoria Publishers
Release Date : 2000
Circles Of Power written by Barbara Summerhawk and has been published by New Victoria Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.
A compelling study of the Southern Oregon Women's Community, one of the most vital and dynamic alternative communities to take root during America's back to the land movement of the 1970s. The editors provide an in-depth analysis of the roots, heart, and spirit of this lively and largely lesbian circle of women which extends from the border of Northern California up the I-5 corridor through Eugene, Oregon.
Engineering Identities Epistemologies And Values
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Author : Steen Hyldgaard Christensen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-05-30
Engineering Identities Epistemologies And Values written by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-30 with Philosophy categories.
This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies and values. Key overlapping questions examine such issues as an engineering identity, engineering self-understandings enacted in the professional world, distinctive characters of engineering knowledge and how engineering science and engineering design interact in practice. Authors bring with them perspectives from their institutional homes in Europe, North America, Australia\ and Asia. The volume includes 24 contributions by more than 30 authors from engineering, the social sciences and the humanities. Additional issues the chapters scrutinize include prominent norms of engineering, how they interact with the values of efficiency or environmental sustainability. A concluding set of articles considers the meaning of context more generally by asking if engineers create their own contexts or are they created by contexts. Taken as a whole, this collection of original scholarly work is unique in its broad, multidisciplinary consideration of the changing character of engineering practice.
Gendered Marketing
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Author : Maclaran, Pauline
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2022-08-05
Gendered Marketing written by Maclaran, Pauline and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Performing an in-depth exploration of the gendered nature of marketing theory and practice, this timely book unpacks the many ideological assumptions embedded in marketing thought and action.
Consuming Technologies
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Author : Eric Hirsch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Consuming Technologies written by Eric Hirsch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Social Science categories.
Consuming Technologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world, and an explanation of the relationship between the domestic and public spheres as they are mediated by consumption and technology.
The Gender Technology Relation
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Author : Rosalind Gill
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2018-12-07
The Gender Technology Relation written by Rosalind Gill and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-07 with Social Science categories.
Provides a review of contemporary theory and empirical research into the relationship between feminism and social constructivism. Through case studies, the book focuses on issues raised by different technologies and on developing theoretical understandings of the gender-technology relation.