Connecting Women

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Connecting Gender, Women and ICT in Europe: A Long-Term Perspective

   • Valérie Schafer, Benjamin G. Thierry

   Pages 1-23

3. Networks and Empowerment. Introductory Remarks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-26

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   2. Telegraphy and the “New Woman” in Late-Nineteenth-Century Europe

      • Simone M. Müller

      Pages 27-46

   3. Airing the Differences: An Approach to the Role of Women in the Spanish Free Radio Movement (1976–2014)

      • José Emilio Pérez Martínez

      Pages 47-60

   4. From Marie-Claire Magazine’s Authoritative Pedagogy to the Hellocoton Blog Platform’s Knowledge Sharing: Between Gender Construction and Gender Appropriation

      • Alexie Geers

      Pages 61-73

4. Gendered Representations. Introductory Remarks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. The Sylviac Affair (1904–1910) or Joan of Arc Versus the Demoiselles du Téléphone

      • Dominique Pinsolle

      Pages 77-87

   3. The Representational Intertwinement of Gender, Age and Uses of Information and Communication Technology: A Comparison Between German and French Preteen Magazines

      • Marion Dalibert, Simona De Iulio

      Pages 89-100

5. ICT and Professionalization. Introductory Remarks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-102

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   2. From Computing Girls to Data Processors: Women Assistants in the Rothamsted Statistics Department

      • Giuditta Parolini

      Pages 103-117

   3. The Gendering of the Computing Field in Finland, France and the United Kingdom Between 1960 and 1990

      • Chantal Morley, Martina McDonnell

      Pages 119-135

   4. Breaking the “Glass Slipper”: What Diversity Interventions Can Learn from the Historical Evolution of Occupational Identity in ICT and Commercial Aviation

      • Karen Lee Ashcraft, Catherine Ashcraft

      Pages 137-155

   5. Gender-Technology Relations in the Various Ages of Information Societies

      • Delphine Gardey

      Pages 157-169

6. Back Matter

   Pages 171-174

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This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph. Features: describes how gendered networks have formed around ICT since the late 19th Century; reviews the gendered issues revealed by the conflict between the actress Ms Sylviac and the French telephone administration in 1904, or by ‘feminine’ blogs; examines how gender representations, age categories, and uses of ICT interact and are mutually formed in children’s magazines; illuminates the participation of women in the early days of computing, through a case study on the Rothamsted Statistics Department; presents a comparative study of women in computing in France, Finland and the UK, revealing similar gender divisions within the ICT professions of these countries; discusses diversity interventions and the part that history could (and should) play to ensure women do not take second place in specific occupational sectors.

• Gender
• History of Computing
• ICT
• Media History
• Women

• Institute for Communication Sciences, CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne, UPMC, Paris, France

  Valérie Schafer

• Institute for Communication Sciences CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne, UPMC, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France

  Benjamin G. Thierry

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