Category Archives: Feminist Technology

February 11, 2011

Viagra a Feminist Technology? by Joe Datko

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During the fall 2010 semester, students in my graduate course on Gender, Science, Technology, and Medicine read Feminist Technology.  One of their assignments was to generate a blog entry of their own. Here is one of the products they evaluated. —Linda Layne, … Continue reading →

February 8, 2011

Graphics Matter: The Potential for Public Instructions as Feminist Technologies by Linda Layne

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One of the things we learned in Feminist Technology is that the gender politics (sexism and feminism) of technologies are not only inscribed into products through their dimensions, weight, features, and functions, but often are inscribed upon them too. Following Hardon, … Continue reading →

February 4, 2011

The Property Leash! Or How Concern for Property Trumps Personal Safety by Dan Lyles

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During the fall 2010 semester, students in my graduate course on Gender, Science, Technology, and Medicine read Feminist Technology.  One of their assignments was to generate a blog entry of their own. Here is one of the products they evaluated. —Linda Layne, … Continue reading →

December 13, 2010

Feminist Technologies for Safe Sex & Sexual Pleasure? by Linda Layne

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In the women’s  ‘loo’ in a pub in Cambridge, England I found a product which is promoted as one “designed by girls, for girls”— a “seduction kit” for three pounds, consisting of two condoms (one natural feel and one with … Continue reading →

May 20, 2010

Fashion & Feminism by Linda Layne

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One of the questions raised by the discussion with my students regarding the virtues and vices of making birth control packs look like compacts is the relationship of fashion with feminism. I refer here not to the perennial questions of … Continue reading →

May 17, 2010

Are “Fashionable” Birth Control Packs Feminist or Antifeminist? by Linda Layne

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The page proofs of Feminist Technology were ready in time for me to give the book a trial run in my spring course, Women Leaders/Feminist Entrepreneurs. As anticipated, the students really connected with the material. Always keen discussants, they were … Continue reading →