TechnoFeminism

TechnoFeminism is a book by academic sociologist Judy Wajcman, about the role that gender plays in technology. The book reframes the relationship between gender and technologies, and presents a feminist reading of the woman-machine relationship. It is considered a key contributor to the rise of feminist technoscience as a field.

TechnoFeminism
AuthorJudy Wajcman
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreAcademic
PublisherPolity Press
Publication date
2004
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback & eBook)
Pages148
ISBN0-7456-3043-X

Reception

According to a review in the American Journal of Sociology, Wajcman convincingly argues that "analyses of everything from transit systems to pap smears must include a technofeminist awareness of men’s and women’s often different positions as designers, manufacturing operatives, salespersons, purchasers, profiteers, and embodied users of such technologies."[1]

In the journal Science, Technology and Human Values, Sally Wyatt notes that the "theoretical insights from feminist technoscience (can and should) be useful for empirical research as well as for political change and action" and that one way of moving towards this is "return to production and work as research sites because so much work in recent years has focused on consumption, identity, and representation."[2]

Editions

Adding to the print edition, which has been reprinted several times, E-book editions of TechnoFeminism were released in 2013. The book has been translated into Spanish as El Tecnofeminismo.[3]

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References
  1. McCaughey, Martha (2006-05-01). "TechnoFeminism by Judy Wajcman". American Journal of Sociology. 111 (6): 1982–1983. doi:10.1086/506222. ISSN 0002-9602.
  2. Wyatt, Sally (Summer 2005). "Book Review: He, She and IT Revisited: New Perspectives on Gender in the Information Society; TechnoFeminism". Science, Technology & Human Values. 30 (3): 433–436. doi:10.1177/0162243904273483.
  3. WorldCat list of formats and editions

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