Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World by Mitter, Swasti

Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415141185)

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Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World by Mitter, Swasti

Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World

$79.99
Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World by Mitter, Swasti

Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World

$79.99
Format: Paperback
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This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.

Author: Swasti Mitter
ISBN-10: 0415141184
ISBN-13: 9780415141185
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/24/1997
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.84d
By Swasti Mitter
By Swasti Mitter
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Swasti Mitter is the Deputy Director of the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU/INTECH), Maastricht, the Netherlands, and holds the Chair of Gender and Technology Studies at the University of Brighton, UK. Sheila Rowbotham has written extensively on women in history and the contemporary position of women. She is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester and an Honorary Fellow in Women's Studies at the University of North London.

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