| Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World Revised Edition Contributor(s): Mitter, Swasti (Editor), Rowbotham, Sheila (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415141184 ISBN-13: 9780415141185 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $68.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
| Dewey: 331.4 |
| Series: Unu/Intech Studies in New Technology and Development |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. |
