Ungendering Technology

<p>This book offers fresh insight into women’s mastery of technologies commonly associated with men with important implications for institutional efforts to identify and support technical proficiency among girls and women. </p><p></p><p>The work is structured across five original case studies featuring: breast cancer survivors in Newfoundland who constructed a wooden dragon boat using hand and power tools; Egyptian women who used information and communication technologies for political action during the Revolution of 2011; pioneer female audio engineers in the United States working in live concert and studio venues; U.S. female commercial airline pilots who mastered the complexity of flying large aircraft; and a university-educated woman working in sewer maintenance and repair for the City of Detroit in the 1970s. The case studies capture women’s own voices and present a range of historical and geographic locations. </p><p></p><p>A major contribution of this volume is the multidisciplinary analytical framework used to explain women’s motivation to engage with non-traditional technologies the role of peer and political support in encouraging persistence and informal as well as formal knowledge and skill acquisition. Above all it is a story of women's empowerment - individually and collectively. </p><p></p><p>This is a unique book suitable for undergraduates and graduates in the fields of Women's and Gender Studies; Science Technology and Society (STS) Studies; Engineering Education; and Adult Education. </p>