IIG

This series of lectures will examine the basic notions of gender and technology and how they are perceived to impact on one another. Lecture topics will also include: application of feminist theories to women's roles in technology, the impact of essentialism on the participation of women in technological development, the role of enjoyment and pleasure in technology, the role of power in technology, technology and time and how the rate of technological development differently impacts on men and women. At a more practical level, there will be a description of techniques for critical analysis of educational and other 'texts' used in technology to identify possible hidden gender bias.

• 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: Harper and Row.
• Londa Schiebinger (1999) Has Feminism Changed Science? Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Download the Reading list: http://mod.iig.uni-freiburg.de/lehre/ws0304/interaction/readinglist.doc

Studienschwerpunkt: I&G, Gender Studies

Es kann ein benoteter Schein für I\&G und/oder Gender Studies erworben werden. Der Erwerb von 3 ects-Punkten für Informatik-Studierende ist möglich.