{"title":"The culture of engineering: Woman, workplace and machine","authors":"Sally L. Hacker","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96559-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96559-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Questions arising from research on automation and women's work have led me to explore patriarchal elements in the culture of engineering/management. In an elite technological institute, the engineering faculty, compared with the humanities faculty, reported more distance in childhood from experiences and qualities generally gender-linked with females—intimacy, sensuality, one's own body, social complexity. Engineers valued social hierarchy on a continuum giving most prestige to scientific abstraction, least to feminine qualities. Such values were transmitted in the engineering classroom, for example, through professors' jokes, to a new generation of engineering/ management. A persistent mind/body dualism was exhibited, subordinating sexuality and the body, and elevating scientific abstraction. The dualism translated into a mechanical view of the person and to continued separation of functions of mind and hand. Further examination of mind/body dualisms may help us to understand how the persistence of this body of ideas in Western technology affects labor processes, and in particular, women, workplace and machine.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 3","pages":"Pages 341-353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96559-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77892704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminist pedagogy and technology: Reflections on the goddard feminism and ecology summer program","authors":"Ynestra King","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96625-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96625-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 3","pages":"Pages 370-372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96625-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74058574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Pamela J. Annas","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96845-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96845-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 3","pages":"Page 385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96845-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"93705574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Carol P. MacCormack","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)94268-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)94268-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 262-263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)94268-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"96904624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women and microelectronics: The case of word processors","authors":"Erik Arnold, Lynda Birke, Wendy Faulkner","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96537-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96537-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The use of microelectronics in production has serious implications for working people, but these implications differ between women and men.</p><p>We look first at long-wave (Kondratiev) and classical (Marxist) economic theory relate the effects of microelectronics to the economic system. But this tells us nothing about whether the impact of microelectronics differs between the sexes, because the relevant economic categories are sex-blind. The impact on women can only be analysed by introducing the idea of patriarchy. Thus, the interests of capitalists as an oppressor-class and men as an oppressor-sex can be seen as interwoven but not necessarily always coincident.</p><p>Socialism and feminism oppose different oppressive dynamics, yet a victory for one without a victory for the other would be incomplete. Word processing is an area where socialist and feminist struggles can be joined in a practice which is truly progressive.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 3","pages":"Pages 321-340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96537-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85725886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Pamela J. Annas","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96867-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96867-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 3","pages":"Pages 385-387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96867-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82064994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}