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...