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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)
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?:
- Gameboy Color
- iMac
- Dial Up Internet
- iPod
- Etch-A-Sketch
