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

✍ Scribed by Valérie Schafer, Benjamin G. Thierry (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 183
Series: History of Computing
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Connecting Gender, Women and ICT in Europe: A Long-Term Perspective....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-26
Telegraphy and the “New Woman” in Late-Nineteenth-Century Europe....Pages 27-46
Airing the Differences: An Approach to the Role of Women in the Spanish Free Radio Movement (1976–2014)....Pages 47-60
From Marie-Claire Magazine’s Authoritative Pedagogy to the Hellocoton Blog Platform’s Knowledge Sharing: Between Gender Construction and Gender Appropriation....Pages 61-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
The Sylviac Affair (1904–1910) or Joan of Arc Versus the Demoiselles du Téléphone ....Pages 77-87
The Representational Intertwinement of Gender, Age and Uses of Information and Communication Technology: A Comparison Between German and French Preteen Magazines....Pages 89-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-102
From Computing Girls to Data Processors: Women Assistants in the Rothamsted Statistics Department....Pages 103-117
The Gendering of the Computing Field in Finland, France and the United Kingdom Between 1960 and 1990....Pages 119-135
Breaking the “Glass Slipper”: What Diversity Interventions Can Learn from the Historical Evolution of Occupational Identity in ICT and Commercial Aviation....Pages 137-155
Gender-Technology Relations in the Various Ages of Information Societies....Pages 157-169
Back Matter....Pages 171-174

✦ Subjects

History of Computing; Gender Studies

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