Background
Oldenziel, Ruth was born on May 13, 1958 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Daughter of Jan-Germ and Rosa Rachel (Knorringa) Oldenziel.
(Women engineers have been in the public limelight for dec...)
Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field. Most studies are either policy papers or limited to statistical analyses. Moreover, the scant historical research so far available emphasizes the individual, single and unique character of those women working in engineering, often using anecdotal evidence but ignoring larger issues like the patterns of the labour market and educational institutions. Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges offers answers to the question why women engineers have required special permits to pass through the male guarded gates of engineering and examines how they have managed this. It explores the differences and similarities between women engineers in nine countries from a gender point of view. Through case studies the book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of women engineers.
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( To say that technology is male comes as no surprise, bu...)
To say that technology is male comes as no surprise, but the claim that its history is a short one strikes a new note. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945 maps the historical process through which men laid claims to technology as their exclusive terrain. It also explores how women contested this ascendancy of the male discourse and engineered alternative plots. From the moral gymnasium of the shop floor to the staging grounds of World's Fairs, engineers, inventors, social scientists, activists, and novelists emplotted and questioned technology as our modern male myth. Oldenziel recounts the history of technology - both as intellectual construct and material practice - by analyzing these struggles. Drawing on a broad range of sources, she explains why male machines rather than female fabrics have become the modern markers of technology. She shows how technology developed as a narrative production of modern manliness, allowing women little room for negotiation
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Oldenziel, Ruth was born on May 13, 1958 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Daughter of Jan-Germ and Rosa Rachel (Knorringa) Oldenziel.
Bachelor, Master of Arts in History, University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1985. Ma in American Studies, Smith College, Northampton, 1982. Master of Arts in American History, University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1983.
Doctor of Philosophy in American History, Yale University, 1992.
Postdoctoral University Twente, The Netherlands, 1991-1992. Associate professor University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 1992. Founder, president Society Gender and Technology, The Netherlands, 1993-1999.
(Women engineers have been in the public limelight for dec...)
( To say that technology is male comes as no surprise, bu...)
Television commentator American Political Affairs, The Netherlands. Member Society of History of Technology.
1 child, Alexander.