Ebook: Teaching Technology from a Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide

Although technology in the classroom has a long history in engineering
education (Layton 1971/1986; Hacker 1983), teaching about
technology from historical, social, and philosophical perspectives is a
much newer enterprise. The history of technology as a discipline
dates from the late 1950s, interdisciplinary technology studies from
the 1960s. The connections between women's studies and technology
studies are newer st ill. Women's studies began in the late 1960s;
teaching about women and technology began in the middle of the
next decade. The purpose of this book is to describe and analyze the
ways that women's studies approaches- i.e., feminist perspectives on
technology-affect technology teaching in the college classroom. The
focus is practical: courses taught, issues raised, methods and problems
of teaching, resources used.