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            Making Technology Masculine

            Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945

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            Oldenziel, Ruth
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            Abstract
            To say that technology is male comes as no surprise, but the claim that its history is a short one strikes a new note. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945 maps the historical process through which men laid claims to technology as their exclusive terrain. It also explores how women contested this ascendancy of the male discourse and engineered alternative plots. From the moral gymnasium of the shop floor to the staging grounds of World's Fairs, engineers, inventors, social scientists, activists, and novelists emplotted and questioned technology as our modern male myth. Oldenziel recounts the history of technology - both as intellectual construct and material practice - by analyzing these struggles. Drawing on a broad range of sources, she explains why male machines rather than female fabrics have become the modern markers of technology. She shows how technology developed as a narrative production of modern manliness, allowing women little room for negotiation.
             
            Het zal weinig opzien baren wanneer technologie als 'mannelijk' wordt gekwalificeerd, maar de stelling dat deze uitspraak historisch bepaald en pas sinds kort 'waar' is, zal meer stof doen opwaaien. Making Technology Masculine brengt in kaart op welke wijze mannen beslag legden op de technologie als hun exclusieve domein en onderzoekt hoe vrouwen dit mannelijke overwicht op alternatieve wijze probeerden te ondermijnen. Het strijdtoneel waaarop de vrouwelijke ingenieurs, uitvinders, sociale wetenschappers, activistes en schrijfsters zich verzetten tegen technologie als de moderne mannelijke mythe, strekt zich uit van de werkvloer tot de wereldtentoonstellingen. Oldenziel vertelt de geschiedenis van de technologie - als intellectuele constructie en als practische toepassing - aan de hand van deze strubbelingen. Ze legt uit waarom mannelijke machines de moderne ijkpunten van de technologie zijn geworden en daarbij baseert ze zich op een groot aantal bronnen. De schrijfster laat zien hoe de technologie zich heeft ontwikkeld tot de narratieve reproductie van moderne mannelijkheid, en zo weinig ruimte overlaat voor vrouwelijke inmenging.
             
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            https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/151785
            Keywords
            women: historical, geographic, persons treatment; cultuur and geschiedenis; women and education, research, related topics; culture and history; vrouwenstudies; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
            DOI
            10.5117/9789053563816
            ISBN
            9789053563816
            Publisher
            Amsterdam University Press
            Publisher website
            www.aup.nl
            Publication date and place
            1999
            Pages
            271
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