Contains 13 articles exploring the effects of information technology on women's employment and the nature of women's work in the Third World. Contributors address gender and development issues and draw on examples from around the world. They critique postmodernism and ecofeminism and demand that new technology be used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world. Papers were originally presented at an April 1993 conference, and edited for a 1995 volume. This edition is in paperback. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide.
The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.
1 Beyond the politics of difference: an introduction 2 Information
technology and working womens demands 3 Feminist approaches to technology:
womens values or a gender lens? 4 Conflicting demands of new technology and
household work: womens work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles 5 Changes
in textiles: implications for Asian women 6 Information technology and
womens employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe: the case of Slovenia 7
Restructuring and retraining: the Canadian garment industry in transition 8
Computerization and womens employment in Indias banking sector 9
Information technology, gender and employment: a case study of the
telecommunications industry in Malaysia 10 Women in software programming: the
experience of Brazil 11 Something old, something new, something borrowedThe
electronics industry in Calcutta 12 Women and information technology in
sub-Saharan Africa: a topic for discussion? 13 Gender perspectives on health
and safety in information processing: learning from international experience
14 Using information technology as a mobilizing force: the case of The
Tanzania Media Womens Association (TAMWA) 15 The fading of the collective
dream? Reflections on twenty years research on information technology and
womens employment
Swasti Mitter is the Deputy Director of the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU/INTECH), Maastricht, the Netherlands, and holds the Chair of Gender and Technology Studies at the University of Brighton, UK. Sheila Rowbotham has written extensively on women in history and the contemporary position of women. She is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester and an Honorary Fellow in Womens Studies at the University of North London.
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