Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World

Swasti Mitter

ISBN 10: 0415141184 / ISBN 13: 9780415141185

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415141184
• ISBN 13: 9780415141185
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 537 grams

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Synopsis

This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.

About the Author

Swasti Mitter is the Deputy Director of the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU/INTECH), Maastricht, the Netherlands, and holds the Chair of Gender and Technology Studies at the University of Brighton, UK. Sheila Rowbotham has written extensively on women in history and the contemporary position of women. She is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester and an Honorary Fellow in Women’s Studies at the University of North London.