WGST350 Compare the experiences and treatment of women studying engineering in the early 20th century to those of the female “computers” working on the ENIAC project.

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1. Compare the experiences and treatment of women studying engineering in the early 20th century to those of the female “computers” working on the ENIAC project. 2. What are the four conceptual ... approaches to the study of gender and science proposed by Schiebinger (1987)? Choose one and elaborate on its strengths and weaknesses. 3. How has computing and engineering culture become coded as masculine? What are some of the effects on women’s participation? 4. What is “technofeminism” (Wajcman, 2010), and how does it compare to other feminist approaches to the study of gender and technology? 5. How has the connotation of geek changed in the last 20 years? What was Gamergate, and how is it connected to geek masculinity? [Show More]

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