Category Archives: Feminist Technology

March 22, 2018

#PressforProgress Reading List: Key Books on Women in Media

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In honor of Women’s History Month, UIP will be releasing weekly reading lists with some of our favorite women’s history books. We are joining the call to #PressforProgress for gender equality, and we will be updating our Little Free Library, … Continue reading →

December 20, 2013

Drink Savvy, New Feminist Technology by Linda Layne

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David Banks, a Ph.D. student in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer who took my course on gender, science, and technology a number of years ago, keeps his eyes peeled for feminist technologies. Recently he sent me the link to … Continue reading →

November 19, 2013

Adopt the Bechdel Rating System by Linda Layne

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My co-author, Frances Bronet, Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at University of Oregon, recently emailed me to tell me that some movie theaters in Sweden had adopted a rating system for films based on gender bias. … Continue reading →

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 →