Body Parts
By reducing patients’ faces and bodies to a series of component parts, surgeons and patients together establish the problematic status of the part in question and its “objective” need of “repair.” In...
View Article“Whose girlfriend are you?” (women in comp sci)
This is the question my interviewee was first confronted with when she walked into the computer lab on the first day of Comp Sci grad school. My interview with Dianna in the Comp Sci at Bryn Mawr...
View ArticleGender and Class in Jobs
I’m interested in the class differences in jobs between the genders. Most jobs have a certain class suggestion that goes along with them, for example, engineering is generally considered to be a higher...
View ArticleGender in ADHD
I read the quote in rebecca’s post and got to thinking about the ways in which technology is used to empower people who could be considered disabled, but not physically. One thing that came to mind for...
View Article200 Pounds Beauty
So this is pretty different from what other people have been blogging about, but when I heard about this movie, it reminded me of this class. 200 Pounds Beauty is a Korean comedy about an young...
View ArticleThird Quarter Feedback
1. what connections have you seen among all the imaginative representations of gender and technology that we’ve looked @? In all of the stories we have looked at recently, technology has pretty...
View ArticleCardboard box oven
This extremely simple invention fulfills all three categories of what makes innovation worthwhile in my mind, it saves money, it saves people, and it saves the environment. What more could one want?...
View ArticleMore iphone apps
ZY’s post made me wonder what other iphone apps of a similar nature were out there. I found three apps in the top 25 paid apps that featured hyper sexualized images or “games” of women. Here are a...
View ArticleWhat I got (from gandt)
(part of my self evaluation) I decided to take this class because I’ve been interested in gender and technology for awhile, and I was interested getting to learn more about it. I’ve been surprised at...
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