2000/01 Reading List Version 1.1 (September 2000)

Please NOTE: 

1.  Technology and Media Overviews

1.1 Technology - Overviews / Theoretical Developments

Adam, A.  1998. Feminist Resources, in Artificial knowing:  Gender and the thinking machine.  NY: Routledge. (distributed in first seminar)

Balsamo, A. 1997.  Technologies of the gendered body: Reading cyborg women. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.   (Chapter 6 available at             http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/BalsamoFeminism.html)

Berg, A-J. 1994.  Technological flexibility:  Bringing gender into technology (or was itthe other way round?) in Bringing technology home: Gender and technology in a changing Europe. C. Cockburn & R. Furst-Dilic (Eds.). Buckingham:  Open University Press. (on reserve)

Cockburn, C.  2000. The circuit of technology: Gender, identity, and power, in Electronic Media and Technoculture,  Ed. J. T. Caldwell.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press. (originally published in 1992).

__________.  1999.  Caught in the wheels, in The Social Shaping of Technology, 2nd Ed.D. Mackenzie & J. Wajcman (Eds.).  Buckingham: Open University Press.  (article originally published in 1983.)

Cockburn, C. & Furst-Dilic, R. 1994.  Introduction: Looking for the gender/technology relation, in Bringing technology home: Gender and technology in a changingEurope.  C. Cockburn & R. Furst-Dilic (Eds.). Buckingham:  Open University             Press. (on reserve)

Franklin, U. 1999. Revised Edition.  Chapters 7 - 10, in The Real world of Technology. Toronto: House of Anansi.  (distributed in first seminar).

Grint, K. & Woolgar, S.  1995. On some failures of nerve in constructivist and feminist analyses of technology, in The gender-technology relation: Contemporary theory and research . K. Grint and R. Gill (Eds.). London: Taylor and Francis. (on             reserve)

Ormond, S. 1995.  Feminist sociology and methodology: Leaky black boxes in gender/technology relations, in The gender-technology relation: Contemporary theory and research . K. Grint and R. Gill (Eds.) London: Taylor and Francis. (on             reserve)

Rothschild, J. (Ed.) 1983. Machina Ex Dea:  Feminist perspectives on technology.  New York: Pergamon Press. (on reserve)

Stabile, C. 1994. Selling futures: Feminism and technological fix, in Feminism and the Technological Fix. Manchester, Manchester University Press.  **

Stanley, A. 1998 (1983) . Women hold up two-thirds of the sky:  Notes for a revised history of technology, in Sex/Machine: Readings in culture, gender, and technology. Ed. P. Hopkins.  Indiana: Indiana University Press.

_________. 1995. Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology. NJ: Rutgers University Press. (available at Steacie)

Sundin, E. 1997. Gender and technology: Mutually constituting and limiting, in Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society. Linkoping University. (on reserve)

Suchman, L. 1999. (1994). Working relations of technology production and use, in The Social Shaping of Technology, 2nd Ed. D. Mackenzie & J. Wajcman ( Eds.).Buckingham:   Open University Press.

Terry, J. & Calvert, M. 1997. Part 1 of Processed lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life. London: Routledge.

Wajcman, J. 1991.  “The technology of production,” and “Technology as masculine culture,” in Feminism confronts Technology.  University Park, PA:   University of Pennsylvania Press. (on reserve)

1.2  Media - Overviews / Theoretical Developments

Cirksena, K. & Cuklanz, L. 1992. "Male is to female...:: A guided tour of five feminist frameworks for communication studies, in Women making meaning: New feminist directions in communication. L. Rakow (Ed.) New York: Routledge.** (on reserve)

Lumby, C. 1997.  Bad girls: The media, sex and feminism in the 90s.  Australia:  Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd.  (on reserve)

Macdonald, M. 1995.  Representing women: Myths of femininity in the popular media. London: Hodder Headline PLC. (on reserve)

Rush, R. 1989. Communications at the crosssroads: The gender gap connection, in Communications at the crossroad: the gender gap connection. R. Rush and D. Allen    (Eds.), Norwood, NJ: Albex.

1.3  The computer - Overviews

Kirkup, G. 1992.  The social construction of computers:  Hammers or harpsichords?  in Inventing women, science, technology and gender. Eds. G. Kirkup & L. Smith. Open University:  Polity Press.

Miller, L. 1995.  Women and children first: Gender and the settling of the electronicfrontier, in Resisting the Virtual Life. Eds. J. Brook & I. Boal).  San Francisco:City Lights. **

Morrit, H. 1997.  Introduction and problem statement and The related literature, in Women and computer based technologies:  A feminist perspective.  Lanham, MA:University Press of America.**

Lie, M. 1995.  Technology and masculinity: The case of the computer. European Journal of Women’s Studies. 2.3, 379-394. 

Plant, S. 1997.  Zeros + Ones:  Digital Women + the New Technoculture.  NY:Doubleday.  (on reserve)

Stone, A. R. 1995.  The war of desire and technology at the close of the mechanical age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

_____.  (originally published 1991). Will the real body please stand up. Available at

http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/StoneBody.html

2.  Feminist Research Issues

Berner, B. 1997.  Doing feminist research on technology and society, in  Gendered practices: Feminist studies of technology and society.  B. Berner (Ed.) Stockhom, Sweden: Almquist & Wiksell International.

Langellier, K. & Hall, D. 1989.  Interviewing Women: A Phenomenological approach to feminist communication research, in Doing research on women’s communication;Perspectives on theory and method.  K Carter & C. Spitzack (Eds.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex   Publishing Corporation. (on reserve) 

Spitzack, C. & Carter, K. 1989. Research on women’s communication: The politics of theory and method in Doing research on women’s communication; Perspectives on theory and method.  K Carter & C. Spitzack (Eds.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex             Publishing Corporation. (on reserve)

Zoonen, L. van. 1994.  Chapter 8: Research methods, in Feminist media studies.  London: Sage. ** (on reserve)

3.  Case studies of the gender-media / gender-technology relation

3.1 Romance Novels

Radway,  J. 1984.  Reading the romance: Women, patriarchy and popular literature. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

3.2 Magazines 

Frazer, E. 1987“Teenage girls reading Jackie, Media, Culture and Society  9.4. 407-25.

Stewart Miller, M.  1998.  Chapters 4 and 5 in Cracking the gender code:  Who rules the wired world?  Toronto:  Second Story Press.  ** (on reserve)

Steiner, L. 1992.  The history and structure of women’s alternative media, in Womenmaking meaning: New feminist directions in communication. L. Rakow (Ed.) New York: Routledge. ** (on reserve).

E-zines (available through Internet)

A good list of women's online publications is available at http://www0.delphi.com/woman/magwom.html

3.3 The telephone

Frissen, V. 1995.“Gender is calling: Some reflections on past, present, and future uses of the telephone, in The gender-technology relation: Contemporary theory and research . K. Grint and R. Gill (Eds.) London: Taylor and Francis. 

Martin, M. 1998 (originally published in 1991).  The culture of the telephone, in Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology. Ed. P. Hopkins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.**

________. 1991.  Hello central?: Gender, technology and culture in the formation of telephone systems. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Rakow, L. 1988. Women and the telephone: The gendering of a communications technology, in Technology and women’s voices: Keeping in touch. C. Kramarea (Ed.) Boston: Routledge.

3.4 Cinema

Goldstein, L. 1995.  The National Film Board of Canada’s Studio D: Feminist filmmakers, in Women and media: Content, careers, and criticism. C. Lont (Ed.) Belmont, CA: Wadsworth publishing Co. (on reserve)

Holland, S. 1995.  Descartes goes to Hollywood: Mind, body and gender in contemporary cyborg cinema, in Cyberspace/cyberbodies/cyberpunk: Cultures oftechnological embodiment.  London: Sage.

Kaplan, E.A. 1983.  Introduction, Is the Gaze Male,  Conclusion, in Women and Film. NY: Methuen.

Penley, C.  1984.A certain refusal of difference: Feminism and film theory, in Art afterModernism. Ed. B. Wallis.  Godine Press.

3.5 Television

Ang, I. 1990.  Melodramatic identifications: television and women’s fantasy, in M.E.Brown (Ed.), Television and women’s culture: The politics of the popular.London: Sage.

Brown, M.E. 1989. Soap opera and women’s culture, in Doing research on women's communication; Perspectives on theory and method.  K Carter & C. Spitzack (Eds.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation. ** (book on reserve)

Brown, M.E. . 1990.  Feminist Culturist Television Critics: Culture, theory and practice, in M.E. Brown (Ed.), Television and women’s culture: The politics of the popular.  London: Sage.

Mayne, J. 1988. L.A. Law and prime-time feminism, Discourse. Spring-Summer.

Mellencamp, P. Situation and simulation: An introduction to I Love Lucy, Screen. 26.2.

Steenland, S. 1995. Content analysis of the image of women on television, in Women and media: Content, careers, and criticism. C. Lont (Ed.) Belmont, CA:Wadsworth )ublishing Co.** (book on reserve)

3.6 VHS / television

Gray, A. 1992.  Introduction and Chapter One: Questions of method, inVideo playtime.The gendering of a leisure technology.  London: Routledge.**

3.7  Music Videos

Lewis, L. 1990. Girl culture: How music video appeals to girls,” inTelevision andwomen's culture: The politics of the popular.  M.E. Brown (Ed.).  London: Sage.

Stockbridge, S. 1990. Rock video: Pleasure and resistance, inTelevision and women's culture: The politics of the popular. M.E. Brown (Ed.)  London: Sage.

Stewart, A. 1995.  You’re not rid of me: Riot Grrl bands and new roles and old roles in the work of female performers, in Women and media: Content, careers, andcriticism. C. Lont (Ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth publishing Co (on reserve)

4.8 Computer / Video Games

Cassell, J. & Jenkins, H. Eds.  1999.  From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and computer games.  Boston:  MIT Press.  (on reserve)

De Castell, S. & M. Bryson.  (originally published in Cassell and Jenkins, 1999). Retooling Play: dystopia, dysphoria, and difference.

http://www.educ.sfu.ca/gentech/retooling.html

Cunningham, H. 1999 (1995) . Moral Kombat and computer game girls, in Electronic Media and Technoculture, Ed. J. T. Caldwell.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press. (on reserve)

 Fuller, M. & Jenkins, H. (originally published 1995). Nintendo and new world travelwriting: A dialogue.   Available at

http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/FullerNintendo.html

Provenzo, E. Jr. 1991. Video kids: Making sense of Nintendo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

4.9 Advertising and Computers

Weinstein, M. 1998. Computer advertising and the construction of gender inEducation/Technology/Power: Educational Computing as Social Practice. H.Bromley & M. Apple (Eds.). NY; State University of New York Press. **

4.  Gender and Work

Lupton, E. 1993.  Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office.  NY: Cooper-Hewitt.

Webster, J. 1996. Gender relations in the shaping of technologies, in Shaping Women's Work: Gender, Employment and Information Technology. Essex: Addison WesleyLongman Ltd.  ** (book on reserve)

4.1 The Printing Press/lithographers

Cockburn, C. 1999 (1981) .  The material of male power, in The Social Shaping of Technology,     2nd Ed. D. Mackenzie & J. Wajcman (Eds.).  Buckingham: Open University Press.        

4.2 Word Processors

Hofmann, J.  1999.  Writers, texts and writing acts:  Gendered user images in word processing software, in The Social Shaping of Technology, 2nd Ed.. D. Mackenzie & J. Wajcman (Eds.).  Buckingham: Open University Press. **

4.3. Computer-Aided Design

Sundin, E. 1995.  The social construction of gender and technology.  European Journal of Women’s Studies.  Vol. 2. ppgs. 335-353.**

4.4 Information Technology Jobs

Massey, D. 1996.  Masculinity, dualism and high technology, in Bodyspace: Destabilizing geographies of gender and sexuality.  N. Duncan (Ed.).  London: Routledge Press.             **

Webster, J. 1996.  Shaping Women's Work: Gender, Employment and Information Technology. Edinburgh, Addison Wesley Longman Ltd. (on reserve)

5.  Gender and Education

Furger, R. 1998. Does Jane Compute? Preserving our Daughters’ Place in the CyberRevolution.  NY: Time Warner. 

6.  Cyberspace (general):

Cherny, L. & Weise, E. Eds. 1996.  Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace. Seattle: Seal Press. (on reserve) (see MUDder?  I hardly know 'er! Adventrues of a Feminist MUDder by L. Kendall)

Danet, B. 1998.  Text as mask: Gender, play, and performance on the Internet, in Cybersociety 2.0: Revisting Computer-Mediated Communication and Community S. Jones (Ed.). CA: Sage Publications.

Donath, J. 1999.  Identity and deception in the virtual community, in Communities in cyberspace. M. Smith and P. Kollock (Eds.). London: Routledge.

Eisenstein, Z.  1998.  Seeing: Virtual globes and cyberpublics in Global Obscenities:Patriarchy, Capitalism and the Lure of Cyberfantasy.  NY:  New York University Press. ** (book on reserve)

Kramarae, C. 1998.  Feminist fictions of future technology, in Cybersociety 2.0: Revisting Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. S. Jones (Ed.). CA: Sage Publications.

O’Brien J. 1999. Writing in the body:  Gender (re)production in online interaction, in Communities in cyberspace. M. Smith and P. Kollock (Eds.).  London: Routledge.

Pollock, S. & Sutton, J. 1999. Women click: Feminism and the Internet, in Cyberfeminism:  Connectivity, Critique and Creativity. Ed. S. Hawthorne & R. Klein.  Australia:  Spinifex Press. ** (book available from Frost Library)

Turkle, S. 1995.  Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the Internet.  New York:  Simon & Schuster.

Wallace, P. 1999.  Gender issues on the net, in The Psychology of the Internet.Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press. **

Wise, P. 1996.  “Always already virtual:  Feminist politics in cyberspace,” in Social theory of cyberspace: Politics and identity in virtual worlds.. D. Holmes (Ed.).  London: Sage.

6.1  Cyberlinguistics

Ferris, S. Online 1996.  Women on-line: Cultural and relational aspects of women's communication in on-line discussion groups.  IPCT Journal. Available online

Herring, S. 1996. Posting in a different voice: Gender and ethics in computer-mediated communication, in Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. C. Ess (Ed.).  NY: State University of New York Press.  **

Spender, D. 1995. Nattering on the net: Women, power and cyberspace.  Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex.

Stewart, C. et al. online Oct. 1999. Gender and Participation in Synchronous CMC: AnIRC Case Study.  Interpersonal Computing and Technology: an Electronic Journal for the 21st Century.  Available at http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~ipct-j/1999/n1-2/stewart.html

6.2 Technoerotism

Adams, C.  1996.  This is not our father’s pornography: Sex, lies, and computers, in Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. C. Ess (Ed.).NY: State University of New York Press.

.Dibbell, J.  reprinted 1994.  A rape in cyberspace; or, How an evil clown, a Haitian Trickster spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a database into a society,”in Flame Wars:  The discourse of cyberculture. M. Dery (Ed.).  Durham, NC: Duke   University Press.  Available online at ftp://ftp.lambda.moo.mud.org/pub/MOO/papers/VillageVoice.txt

Springer, C. 1996.  Electronic eros:  Bodies and desire in the postindustrial age. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 

6.3 Future Scenarios:  Artificial Intelligence/Thinking Machines/Cyborgs

Adam, A. 1995.  Embodying knowledge: A feminist critique of artificial intelligence.European Journal of Women’s Studies.  Vol. 2.  pps. 355-377. (article distributed in first seminar)

Balsamo, A. 1999.  Reading cyborgs, writing feminism: reading the body in Contemporary culture, The virtual body in cyberspace, Feminism for th incurably informed, inTechnologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham: Duke University Press. (on reserve).

Dery, M. 1994.  Flame Wars:  The discourse of Cyberculture. Durham: Duke University Press.

Halberstam, J. 1998. Automating gender: Postmodern feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine, in Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology. Ed. P. Hopkins.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.  (originally published in 1991) **

Haraway, D. 1991. A Cyborg Manifesto:  Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century, in Simians, cyborgs, and women: The reinventions of nature. London; Free Assocation Books. (early version online at http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/HarawayCyborg.html)

Kirkup, G. et al. 2000. The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader.  NY: Routledge. (on reserve)

Plant, S. 1996. On the matrix:  cyberfeminist simulations, in Cultures of Internet, R. Shields (Ed.).  NY: Sage.** (book on reserve)

Sandoval, C. 1995.  New Sciences: cyborg feminism and the methodology of the oppressed, in The Cyborg Handbook, C. Gray (Ed.). NY: Routledge. 

Springer, C.  1998.  The pleasure of the interface,  in Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture,Gender, and Technology. P. Hopkins (Ed.).  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.  (originally published in 1991)**

Squires, J. 1996.  Fabulous feminist futures and the lure of cyberculture, in Fractal dreams: New Media in Social Context, J. Dovey (Ed.).  London: Lawrence & Wishart.**