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In this series of seminars participants will study a topic of their
choice and write a paper (in English) for group discussion. A range of
topics will be provided for participants to choose from, all of them related
to gender and technology. Most of these will involve looking at some aspects
of a particular technology in depth. The emphasis for the content of these
is what is actually happening and how this relates to theory. The suggested
topics will include:
- Statistics from Germany on gender ratios and trends in engineering
education and employment.
- Attempts to improve gender balance in the computing industry.
- Critical discourse analysis of, say, a German trade newspaper
(computing, building trade, etc.) showing how the different genders are
portrayed.
- A comparative study of uptake in ICT by women and girls education
in different European countries.
- Problems arising from following essentialist ideas in a particular
technological industry and in education.
- Differing impacts of medical technology on men and women.
- Domestic technology: its origins, its rate of development, and
the role of women in designing it.
Literature:
- Sandra Harding (1986) The Science Question in Feminism. Milton Keynes:
Open University Press.
- Evelyn Fox-Keller (1985) Reflections on Gender and Science, Newhaven and
London: Yale University Press.
- Merchant, Carolyn (1980) The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific
Revolution, New York: Harperand Row.
Download the Reading list: http://mod.iig.uni-freiburg.de/lehre/ws0304/gender-particular-techs/readinglist.doc
Studienschwerpunkt: Gender Studies, I&G
In dem Seminar kann ein benoteter Schein für Gender Studies und/oder
I&G erworben werden. Der Erwerb von 3 ects-Punkten für Informatik-Studierende
ist möglich.
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