Special issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine on
"GENDER AND TECHNOLOGY"
Papers on the relationship between gender and technology are sought for a
special issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.
Articles should contribute to an understanding of how gender arrangements
influence and are influenced by technological innovation.
This includes, but is not limited to, the following issues:
a) processes of technological training, development, and innovation;
b) workforce and workplace issues in the production of technologies
within a global economy;
c) definitions of, and rewards for, technological achievement as
entangled with gender relations;
d) implications of modern technologies for women in developing nations;
and
e) the liberatory potential of new technolgies.
Papers should address original research or novel perspectives on any of
the above issues or other aspects of the gender and technology
relationship and should be of interest to an IEEE Technology and Society
Magazine audience.
Submission deadline: December 15, 1998
Co-guest editors:
Alison Adam, Dept. of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK
email: A.Adam@co.umist.ac.uk
Mary Wyer, Women's and Gender Studies, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
email: mbwyer@unity.ncsu.edu
Submission address:
Mary Wyer
Women's and Gender Studies
Box 7107
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695