Web Papers 2

Below find a catalogue of the second set of webpapers emerging from Computer Science/English/Film Studies/Gender &Sexuality 257, a course offered at Bryn Mawr College. Students are writing here about what issues seem most critical to them in the intersection of gender and technology.

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available for each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you…what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who–exploring the internet–might be in search of a thoughtful conversation about the shape and sound of the engendering of technology today?

• A Gendered View On The Hacker Community
• A Guide to Destroying the Patriarchy: Using Male Technology Against Men
  George Fayne
• Air Traffic Control and Gender Performativity
  Michelle Bennett
• Attracting More Women (and Men) to CS
  Diana Ekman
• Conceiving Ada – A Review
  prp
• Do the Job He Left Behind
  Carrie Soto
• Domestic Workers in Middle Class Families in South Asia and United States
  Marwa
• Eco-Feminist Leanings in Wiccan Theology for Dummies
  The Doctor
• Female Suicide Bombers
  Shikha
• Feminist influences on Rock music culture
  Farhat
• Gender and Artificial Intelligence: a limited imagination or a non-superficial indicator?
  Rebecca Church
• Gender and Technology: A Power Struggle
  Nat Armentrout
• Gender, Politics and Power in the Technology of Belly Dance
  Ruth Goodlaxson
• Gender, Technology, and America in the 1950s
  Aline
• Gendered Technology
  Kalyn Schofield
• Gendered telephones and machine-like women
  Hannah Mueller
• Girl or Boy? You Decide
  Ashley
• How Gender Roles Relate to Technology on CBS’ Survivor
  Guinevere
• Human Inscription of DNA
  Cat Durante
• It’s A Man’s World – The Male Gaze and the Film Industry
  SarahLeia
• Mosuo Matrilineal Society and Gendered Technological Practice
  Roisin Foley
• Pac-Man and the Gender Question
  Alexandra Funk
• Performing and Passing in the Gaming Industry
  Mista jay
• Playboy’s playgirls
  Simran Singh
• Pornography and the Internet
  Solomon Lutze
• Skinny Tights and High Heels
  Natasha
• The Balancing Act: Masculine Bodies and Affirming Femininity
  Roldine Richard
• The Extent and Limitation of the Imagination
  AH
• The Gift: Bugchasing/gift-giving, assimilation, and managing the gay body
  J S
• The Impact of Industrialization on Gender Roles in the United States in the Early 1800s
  aaclh
• The March 2009 Fashions and Features of American Vogue: an Intersection of Gender and Technology
  Anna Dela Cruz
• The Mechanics of Beauty
  Maddie
• The Media and Miniskirts: The Roller Girls Debate
  Alex M.
• The Role of Blogging in the Feminist Movement
  Melinda
• The Technology of Geisha
  ZY
• Two Truths: Contradiction in Science and Humanity
  Melanie Bruchet
• Women in Science
  Hillary Cleveland
• Women in SPACE!
  Cleo Calbot
• You see a gun, I see a Girlfriend
  Baibh Cathba