Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines by Ruth Oldenziel

By Ruth Oldenziel

To say that know-how is male comes as no shock, however the declare that its heritage is a quick one moves a brand new notice. Making know-how Masculine: males, girls, and sleek Machines in the US, 1870-1945 maps the historic method during which males laid claims to know-how as their particular terrain. It additionally explores how girls contested this ascendancy of the male discourse and engineered replacement plots. From the ethical health club of the store ground to the staging grounds of World's gala's, engineers, inventors, social scientists, activists, and novelists emplotted and puzzled know-how as our sleek male delusion. Oldenziel recounts the background of know-how - either as highbrow build and fabric perform - by way of studying those struggles. Drawing on a wide diversity of resources, she explains why male machines instead of woman materials became the fashionable markers of expertise. She indicates how expertise constructed as a story construction of recent manliness, permitting girls little room for negotiation

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Independent as the machine might seem to be, Veblen argued that production engineers would be needed at the helm and were the only one, who could be entrusred with irs supervision. The Ilotioll of te:chllology and the figure of the engmeer entered Veblen's work as an afterthought. It ]leverthdes~ prowd to he a crucial one. His meraphoncal language enhanced a modernist mode but also suppressed imponanr experiences that did not flt the analog)',\Xlhile he acknowledged the place of workers' skills, he saw engllleers as the chief bearers of techillcal knowledge:.

In spite of her recapitulation of the older meanings of invention~ in her own reforrTlulation, T;ubell could not e~cape the emerging machine-bound understanding of )Jlvelltions because, like Cage, she felt compelled to argue that women could indeed be ~ucctssful in devi~ing things mechanical. S. Patent Office ill the nation's capital. She championed working-clas~ women rather than Tarbell's middle-class women who worked at home. Smith, preslL1ent of the \\foman's National Industrial League of Amcrica, dirccdy challenged the Patelll Office in a blitz campaign on the lKcasion of it~ hundredth anniversary in 1890.

T women lVere an integral part ofcivilization met with complete resi~tance. A, a 1,\,1 re~on, lhe;: ,ettled for a ~eparate and segregated building, "" I'he Woman's Pavihon," de,igned by the' young MIT archItecture grad llate Sophia C;. ady Board of Manager~ headed by Chicagoan socialile and icmini'it Bertha Honor~ Palmer (1849-1918). ' [Figure 71 Reflecting women's small space of negotiation, Hayden's p,lVilioll was the sillalle'l of:dl and precariollsly located between the officwl White City and lic~ntiolls :v1id".

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