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Working through Gender: The Inter-Weaving of New Technology in Workplace and Home

Gone are the days when the study of gender and technology involved looking at the impact of technology, presumed to be gender neutral, on gender relations, presumed to be already fully constituted. The accent now is rather on the mutual shaping of relations of technology and gender. Indeed, the specific aim of the first two books, both products of a European-wide feminist research project initiated by the Vienna Centre, was to explore how technologies themselves as well as the people associated with their production and consumption acquire gendered meanings and identities. Each group of researchers chose a domestic technology of particular significance in their country and followed its life-trajectory from design and manufacture, via marketing and sales, to its use, uncovering the different gendering and gendered processes en route. As research method, tracing the trajectory of an artefact is quite novel. It also overcomes the unsatisfactory separation, customary in technology research, between 'innovation' and 'use' studies which can too easily mirror in research practice the actual separation between men as innovators and women as users of domestic artefacts.