Technology and Women's Voices

Avoiding jargon and using well-chosen illustrations, "Technology and Women's Voices assesses technological changes in terms of their impact on women's social lives.

PREFACE; Gotta go Myrtle, technology's at the door; Women's voices/men's voices: technology as language; Women clerical workers and the typewriter: the writing machine; Computational reticence: why women fear the intimate machine; 'Who needs a personality to talk to a machine?': communication in the automated office; Chatting on a feminist computer network; Gender and typographic culture: beginning to unravel the 500-year Mystery; Women on the move: how public is public transport? Women and Transport Forum. Putting wheels on women's sphere; Talk of sewing circles and sweatshops; 'Washing, seems it's all we do': washing technology and women's Communication; Oral traditions and the advent of electric power; Speaking up: voice amplification and women's struggle for public Expression; Women and the telephone: the gendering of a communications technology