Connecting Women Women, Gender and ICT in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schafer, Valérie (Editor), Thierry, Benjamin G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Computer Science.; History of Computing.; Gender Studies.

This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph. Presenting a dialogue which encompasses a diverse selection of transnational and interdisciplinary studies, the tex...

Table of Contents:

• Connecting Gender, Women and ICT in Europe
• Part I: Networks and Empowerment
• Telegraphy and the ‘New Woman’ in late Nineteenth Century Europe
• Airing the Differences
• From Marie-Claire Magazine’s Authoritative Pedagogy to the Hellocoton Blog Platform’s Knowledge Sharing
• Part II: Gendered Representations
• The Sylviac Affair (1904-1910)
• The Representational Intertwinement of Gender, Age and Uses of Information and Communication Technology
• Part III: ICT and professionalization
• From Computing Girls to Data Processors
• The Gendering of the Computing Field in Finland, France and the United Kingdom Between 1960 and 1990
• Breaking the ‘Glass Slipper’
• Gender-Technology Relations in the Various Ages of Information Societies.