Technology and Women's Voices: Keeping in Touch

by Cheris Kramarae (Editor)

Avoiding jargon and using well-chosen illustrations, Technology and Women's Voices assesses technological changes in terms of their impact on women's social lives. The contributors investigate women's talk as part of the technological environment in which it occurs, and argue that technology has made a lasting impact on women's communications. The articles trace the operations of several specific innovations - including electricity, the telephone, washing machine, car, sewing machine and computer.

258 pages, Hardcover

First published January 28, 1988

About the author

Cheris Kramarae is the co-editor of the new Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge, and a past professor of communications and of women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a visiting professor at the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon.

She is the author of Women and Men Speaking; editor of Technology and Women's Voices; and co-editor of Feminism Challenges in the Information Age; Women,Information Technology and Scholarship; The Information Explosion; Feminism Challenges in the Information Age; The Revolution in Words: Righting Women 18680-1871; Radical Press of the 1850's; A Feminist Dictionary; For Alma Mater: Feminist Scholarship in Theory and Practice; Language and Power; Language, Gender and Society; and The Voices and Words of Women and Men, as well as dozens of chapters and articles on language, education, radical feminism, and technology.