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Title:

Feminist technology / edited by Linda L. Layne, Sharra L. Vostral, and Kate Boyer.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xii, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Feminist theory.
Women--Effect of technological innovations on.
Technology and civilization.

Other Authors:

Layne, Linda L.
Vostral, Sharra Louise, 1968-
Boyer, Kate.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Sorting out the question of feminist technology / Deborah G. Johnson -- The need to bleed? A feminist technology assessment of menstrual-suppressing birth control pills / Jennifer Aengst, Linda L. Layne -- Why the home pregnancy test isn't the feminist technology it's cracked up to be and how to make it better / Linda L. Layne -- Breast pumps: a feminist technology, or (yet) "more work for mother"? / Kate Boyer, Maia Boswell-Penc -- Tampons: re-scripting technologies as feminist / Sharra L. Vostral -- From subaltern alignment to constructive mediation: modes of feminist engagement in the design of reproductive technologies / Anita Hardon -- Teaching feminist technology design / Frances Bronnet, Linda L. Layne -- Feminist inventor's studio / Sharra L. Vostral, Deana McDonagh -- What we know about feminist technologies / Shirley Gorenstein.

Series:

Women, gender, and technology.

ISBN:

0252077202 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252077203 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252035321 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252035326 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)460058296

LCCN:

2009045141

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)