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Connecting Women

Women, Gender and ICT in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

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Editors:
  1. Valérie Schafer

    1. Institute for Communication Sciences, CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne, UPMC, Paris, France

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  2. Benjamin G. Thierry

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

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  • Provides a unique European perspective
  • Describes important past research, as well as the current state of the art
  • Presents a long-term vision from an international and interdisciplinary selection of experts

Part of the book series: History of Computing (HC)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  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

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 171-174
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Connecting Women

  • Book Subtitle: Women, Gender and ICT in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

  • Editors: Valérie Schafer, Benjamin G. Thierry

  • Series Title: History of Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20837-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20836-7Published: 16 October 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36484-1Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20837-4Published: 08 October 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2190-6831

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-684X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 174

  • Topics: History of Computing, Gender Studies

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