Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide.
The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.
Table of Contents
Beyond the politics of difference : an introduction / Swasti Mitter -- Information technology and working women's demands / Swasti Mitter -- Feminist approaches to technology : women's values or a gender lens? / Sheila Rowbotham -- Conflicting demands of new technology and household work : women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles / Liliana Acero -- Changes in textiles : implications for Asian women / Pavla Jezkova -- Information technology and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe : the case of Slovenia / Maja Buécar -- Restructuring and retraining : the Canadian garment industry in transition / Charlene Gannagâe -- Computerization and women's employment in India's banking sector / Sujata Gothoskar -- Information technology, gender and employment : a case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia / Cecilia Ng Choon Sim and Carol Yong -- Women in software programming : the experience of Brazil / Fatima Janine Gaio -- Something old, something new, something borrowed : the electronics industry in Calcutta / Nirmala Banerjee -- Women and information technology in sub-Saharan Africa : a topic for discussion? / Mayuri Odedra-Straub -- Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing : learning from international experience / Ruth Pearson -- Using information technology as a mobilizing force : the case of The Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA) / Fatma Alloo -- The fading of the collective dream? Reflections on twenty years' research on information technology and women's employment / Ursula Huws.