In the last three decades, women's intervention in the social and natural sci ences, in medicine and technology has introduced new paradigms. We have to admit that it takes time and energy to influence these fields in a feministic way. Women do not only work for the growth of knowledge, but also for the trans formation of knowledge systems. This book is about using knowledge for action in an interdisciplinary effort focussing on information as a social resource. Women's approach to the information age is different, as becomes visible in this book: Women's scholarly explorations include not...

The present book is based on the conference Software Development and Reality Construction held at SchloB Eringerfeld in Germany, September 25 - 30, 1988. This was organized by the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) in cooperation with the German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), Sankt Augustin, and sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation whose financial support we gratefully acknowledge. The conference was an interdisciplinary scientific and cultural event aimed at promoting discussion on the nature of computer science as a scientific discipline and on the theoretical...

-Es gibt keine eindeutige Determination der sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung durch die wissenschaftlich-technische Entwicklung, wie dies aus technokratischer bzw. scientistischer Sicht gerne angenommen wird. Es gibt aber sicher keine soziale und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung ohne wissenschaftlich-technische Entwicklung. Es wird hochst wahrscheinlich auch keinen weiteren wissenschaftlich-technischen Fortschritt ohne sozialen Fortschritt geben, beide Entwicklungsprozesse mussen durch bewusste Gestaltung miteinander vermittelt werden.-
-Die modernen Informations- und...