women, gender and ICT in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Schafer, Valérie > (ed.)
- Creator
- Thierry, Benjamin G. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- WER 53 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- ICT, vrouwbeelden, vrouwen in mannenberoepen, arbeidsverdeling naar sekse, Europa, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph. It describes how gendered networks have formed around ICT since the late 19th Century, it reviews the gendered issues revealed by the conflict between the actress Ms Sylviac and the French telephone administration in 1904, or by ‘feminine’ blogs, it examines how gender representations, age categories, and uses of ICT interact and are mutually formed in children’s magazines, it illuminates the participation of women in the early days of computing, through a case study on the Rothamsted Statistics Department, it 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, and it 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: 1. Connecting Gender, Women and ICT in Europe: A Long-Term Perspective / Schafer, Valérie (et al.) : 2. Telegraphy and the “New Woman” in Late-Nineteenth-Century Europe / Müller, Simone M.: 3. Airing the Differences: An Approach to the Role of Women in the Spanish Free Radio Movement (1976–2014) / Pérez Martínez, José Emilio : 4. From Marie-Claire Magazine’s Authoritative Pedagogy to the Hellocoton Blog Platform’s Knowledge Sharing: Between Gender Construction and Gender Appropriation / Geers, Alexie: 5. The Sylviac Affair (1904–1910) or Joan of Arc Versus the Demoiselles du Téléphone / Pinsolle, Dominique: 6. The Representational Intertwinement of Gender, Age and Uses of Information and Communication Technology: A Comparison Between German and French Preteen Magazines / Dalibert, Marion (et al.): 7. From Computing Girls to Data Processors: Women Assistants in the Rothamsted Statistics Department / Parolini, Giuditta: 8. The Gendering of the Computing Field in Finland, France and the United Kingdom Between 1960 and 1990 / Morley, Chantal (et al.): 9. Breaking the “Glass Slipper”: What Diversity Interventions Can Learn from the Historical Evolution of Occupational Identity in ICT and Commercial Aviation / Ashcraft, Karen Lee (et al.): 10. Gender-Technology Relations in the Various Ages of Information Societies / Gardey, Delphine