TY - BOOK AU - Green,Eileen AU - Adam,Alison TI - Virtual gender: technology, consumption, and identity SN - 0415233143 AV - HQ1233 .V57 2001 U1 - 306.46 21 PY - 2001/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Women KW - Effect of technological innovations on KW - Computers and women KW - Technology KW - Social aspects KW - Technological innovations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Women and the Internet : the natural history of a research project; Anne Scott, Lesley Semmens and Lynette Willoughby --; Gender in email-based co-operative problem-solving; Greg Michaelson and Margit Pohl --; Lives and livelihoods in the technological age; Kate White, Leslie Regan Shade and Jennifer Brayton --; Becoming a technologist : days in a girl's life; Linda Stepulevage --; Theoretical reflections on networking in practice : the case of women on the net; Gillian Youngs --; Understanding computer game cultures : a situated approach; Simeon J. Yates and Karen Littleton --; Visual pleasure in textual places : gazing in multi-user object-oriented worlds; Michèle White --; Strange yet stylish headgear : virtual reality consumption and the construction of gender; Nicola Green --; Technology, leisure and everyday practices; Eileen Green --; Men, masculinities and 'mundane' technologies : the domestic telephone; Maria Lohan --; Cyberstalking : gender and computer ethics; Alison Adam --; Gender in the design of the digital city of Amsterdam; Els Rommes, Ellen van Oost and Nelly Oudshoorn --; Social geography of gender switching in virtual environments on the Internet; Lynne D. Roberts and Malcolm R. Parks --; Camera with a view : JenniCAM, visual representation and cyborg subjectivity; Krissi M. Jimroglou --; Cyborgs or goddesses? : Becoming divine in a cyberfeminist age; Elaine Graham N2 - "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 ER -