| Description |
185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Achieving a New Technology -- Gender in the Microwave-World -- The Engineer and the Home Economist -- White Goods, Brown Goods -- Cooking and Zapping -- Gender -- Making and Remaking |
| Summary |
"The authors follow the microwave's life trajectory from the design office to the factory and thence to the shops and household. Examining the different jobs women and men do, the different kinds of knowlege they contribute and the unequal importance they are ascribe in the evloution of the microwave, this book shows how technology relations continue to disadvantage women" -- back cover |
| Analysis |
Society Role of Technology |
| Notes |
Spine title: Gender & technology in the making |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-182) and index |
| Subject |
Microwave ovens -- Social aspects.
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Sex role.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Gender Identity.
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Technology.
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Sociology.
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| Author |
Ormrod, Susan.
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| LC no. |
93085147 |
| ISBN |
0803988109 (cased) |
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0803988117 (paperback) |
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