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Good morning all!
This is just a reminder that there are required readings for class today. One is linked from the syllabus on the course site (bit.ly/HistTechGender) and the other is the introduction to one of our texts, which is available at the campus book store. If you have ordered the text from another source, and it has yet to arrive, here is a pdf of the first chapter.
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Some definitions of technology:
Tools made by humans to simplify various processes, tasks or actions or to make those processes, tasks or actions more efficient. (us)
The application of such knowledge for practical purposes, esp. in industry, manufacturing, etc.; the sphere of activity concerned with this; the mechanical arts and applied sciences collectively. (OED)
The ways in which humans make and do things.
A practical rationality governed by conscious aim. (Foucault)
The ways in which societies construct material worlds, and how they create and use artifacts. (paraphrased from Gender and Technology: A Reader)
Regressive definitions of technology.
Some (but not all) of the work that gender does:
Sorting
Assigning/refusing access to power
Forming identity
Creating structures or institution
Symbolically representing
Some (but by no means all) of the scholars who have written on the idea of separate spheres:
Nancy Cott. The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987)
Glenna Matthews. The Rise of Public Woman: Woman’s Power and Woman’s Place in the United States, 1630-1970 (1992)
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985)
Christine Stansell. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1987)
Some gendered technologies to consider – do you associate these technologies with a particular set of gendered assumptions? What are those assumptions? How do you think that this technology came to be associated with those assumptions?:
