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Some (but not all) of the work that gender does:<\/p>\n
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- Sorting<\/li>\n
- Assigning\/refusing access to power<\/li>\n
- Forming identity<\/li>\n
- Creating structures or institution<\/li>\n
- Symbolically representing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Some (but by no means all) of the scholars who have written on the idea of separate spheres:<\/p>\n
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- Nancy Cott.\u00a0 The Grounding of Modern Feminism<\/em> (1987)<\/li>\n
- Glenna Matthews.\u00a0 The Rise of Public Woman: Woman’s Power and Woman’s Place in the United States, 1630-1970<\/em> (1992)<\/li>\n
- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America<\/em> (1985)<\/li>\n
- Christine Stansell.\u00a0 City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860<\/em> (1987)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Some gendered technologies to consider – do you associate these technologies with a particular set of gendered assumptions?\u00a0 What are those assumptions?\u00a0 How do you think that this technology came to be associated with those assumptions?:<\/p>\n
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- Gameboy Color<\/li>\n
- iMac<\/li>\n
- Dial Up Internet<\/li>\n
- iPod<\/li>\n
- Etch-A-Sketch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Glenna Matthews.\u00a0 The Rise of Public Woman: Woman’s Power and Woman’s Place in the United States, 1630-1970<\/em> (1992)<\/li>\n
- Nancy Cott.\u00a0 The Grounding of Modern Feminism<\/em> (1987)<\/li>\n