Titles about Women and Computing

Alison Adam, Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine, Routledge, 1998 (about gender and AI – includes a discussion of gender and technology with extensive bibliography).

Alison Adam, Judy Emms, Eileen Green and Jenny Owen (eds) Breaking Old Boundaries – Building New Forms, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Women, Work and Computerization, Elsevier (1994).

Eileen Green, Jenny Owen and Den Pain Gendered by Design, Falmer Press,1993.

Frances Grundy, Women and Computers, Intellect (1996) – a good introduction to the field and issues involved.

Frances Grundy, Doris Köhler, Veronika Oechtering and Ulrike Petersen (eds) Spinning a Web from Past to Future, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Women, Work and Computerization, Springer (1997).

Rachel Lander and Alison Adam, Women in Computing, Intellect (1997) – Papers from the 1997 WiC conference.

There is a very useful and comprehensive IT and Women's lives bibliography which you can get from the Univ. of Wisconsin library web site

http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ (up to 1996)

http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/cwitbooks.html

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More general works on gender and technology include:

Cynthia Cockburn and Sue Ormrod, Gender and technology in the making, Sage (1993);

Keith Grint and Rosalind Gill, The Gender Technology Relation, Taylor and Francis (1995).

Judy Wajcman TechnoFeminism Polity Press (2004)

 

For works on feminism:

Susan Hekman, Gender and Knowledge, Polity (1990)

Rosemarie Tong, Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction, Routledge (1994)