Virtual gender : technology, consumption, and identity /

Virtual gender : technology, consumption, and identity / edited by Eileen Green and Alison Adam. - xxi, 330 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women and the Internet : the natural history of a research project / Gender in email-based co-operative problem-solving / Lives and livelihoods in the technological age / Becoming a technologist : days in a girl's life / Theoretical reflections on networking in practice : the case of women on the net / Understanding computer game cultures : a situated approach / Visual pleasure in textual places : gazing in multi-user object-oriented worlds / Strange yet stylish headgear : virtual reality consumption and the construction of gender / Technology, leisure and everyday practices / Men, masculinities and 'mundane' technologies : the domestic telephone / Cyberstalking : gender and computer ethics / Gender in the design of the digital city of Amsterdam / Social geography of gender switching in virtual environments on the Internet / Camera with a view : JenniCAM, visual representation and cyborg subjectivity / Cyborgs or goddesses? : Becoming divine in a cyberfeminist age / Anne Scott, Lesley Semmens and Lynette Willoughby -- Greg Michaelson and Margit Pohl -- Kate White, Leslie Regan Shade and Jennifer Brayton -- Linda Stepulevage -- Gillian Youngs -- Simeon J. Yates and Karen Littleton -- Michèle White -- Nicola Green -- Eileen Green -- Maria Lohan -- Alison Adam -- Els Rommes, Ellen van Oost and Nelly Oudshoorn -- Lynne D. Roberts and Malcolm R. Parks -- Krissi M. Jimroglou -- Elaine Graham.

"Virtual Gender brings together theoretical perspectives from feminist theory, the sociology of technology and gender studies with well designed empirical studies to throw new light on the impact of ICTs on contemporary social life."--Publisher description.

0415233143 9780415233149 0415233151 9780415233156

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Women--Effect of technological innovations on
Computers and women
Technology--Social aspects.
Technological innovations--Social aspects.

HQ1233 / .V57 2001

306.46

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