Connecting Women: Women, Gender and Ict in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9783319208367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 174 str.

Valerie Schafer; Benjamin G. Thierry

Opis

This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph.Presenting a dialogue which encompasses a diverse selection of transnational and interdisciplinary studies, the text investigates forms of female empowerment, gendered representations and women s professionalization, in different spheres of ICT.Topics and features: describes how gendered networks have formed around ICT since the late 19th Century, focusing on the media of the telegraph, the press and the radio; reviews the gendered issues revealed by the conflict between the actress Ms. Sylviac and the French telephone administration in 1904, or by feminine blogs; examines how gender representations, age categories, and uses of ICT interact and are mutually formed in children s magazines; illuminates the participation of women in the early days of computing, through a case study on the Rothamsted Statistics Department; presents a comparative study of women in computing in France, Finland and the UK, revealing similar gender divisions within the ICT professions of the three countries; discusses diversity interventions and the part that history could (and should) play to ensure women do not take second place in specific occupational sectors.Providing a broad analysis on the interconnections between innovation, technology, and women s history, this collection will be of great interest to all researchers at the intersection of gender studies, mediahistory and the history of computing."

Spis treści

Connecting Gender, Women and ICT in Europe: A Long-Term Perspective
Valérie Schafer and Benjamin G. Thierry

Part I: Networks and Empowerment
Delphine Diaz and Regis Schlagdenhauffen

Telegraphy and the ‘New Woman’ in late Nineteenth Century Europe
Simone M. Müller

Airing the Differences: An Approach to the Role of Women in the Spanish Free Radio Movement (1976-2014)
José Emilio Pérez Martínez

From Marie-Claire Magazine’s Authoritative Pedagogy to the Hellocoton Blog Platform’s Knowledge Sharing: Between Gender Construction and Gender Appropriation
Alexie Geers

Part II: Gendered Representations
Delphine Diaz and Regis Schlagdenhauffen

The Sylviac Affair (1904-1910), or Joan of Arc vs. the ‘Demoiselles du Téléphone’
Dominique Pinsolle

The Representational Intertwinement of Gender, Age and Uses of Information and Communication Technology: A Comparison Between German and French Preteen Magazines
Marion Dalibert and Simona De Iulio

Part III: ICT and professionalization
Delphine Diaz and Regis Schlagdenhauffen

From Computing Girls to Data Processors: Women Assistants in the Rothamsted Statistics Department
Giuditta Parolini

The Gendering of the Computing Field in Finland, France and the United Kingdom Between 1960 and 1990
Chantal Morley and Martina McDonnell

Breaking the ‘Glass Slipper’: What Diversity Interventions Can Learn from the Historical Evolution of Occupational Identity in ICT and Commercial Aviation
Karen Lee Ashcraft and Catherine Ashcraft

Gender-Technology Relations in the Various Ages of Information Societies
Delphine Gardey

Blurb

This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph.

Presenting a dialogue which encompasses a diverse selection of transnational and interdisciplinary studies, the text investigates forms of female empowerment, gendered representations and women’s professionalization, in different spheres of ICT.

Topics and features:

• Describes how gendered networks have formed around ICT since the late 19th Century, focusing on the media of the telegraph, the press and the radio
• Reviews the gendered issues revealed by the conflict between the actress Ms. Sylviac and the French telephone administration in 1904, or by ‘feminine’ blogs
• Examines how gender representations, age categories, and uses of ICT interact and are mutually formed in children’s magazines
• Illuminates the participation of women in the early days of computing, through a case study on the Rothamsted Statistics Department
• Presents a comparative study of women in computing in France, Finland and the UK, revealing similar gender divisions within the ICT professions of the three countries
• Discusses diversity interventions and the part that history could (and should) play to ensure women do not take second place in specific occupational sectors

Providing a broad analysis on the interconnections between innovation, technology, and women’s history, this collection will be of great interest to all researchers at the intersection of gender studies, media history and the history of computing.

Dr. Valérie Schafer is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, Institute for Communication Sciences), Paris, France. Dr. Benjamin G. Thierry is an assistant professor at Paris-Sorbonne University.