Technology and Gender in American History

Photo of female trainees working on a practice bomb shell, 1942.

National Youth Administration trainees at the Corpus Christi, TX Naval Air Base, Evelyn and Lillian Buxkeurple are shown working on a practice bomb shell, 1942. (Image courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.)

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MIT Course Number

STS.049J

As Taught In

Spring 2004

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

Course Description

This course centers on the changing relationships between men, women, and technology in American history. Topics include theories of gender, technologies of production and consumption, the gendering of public and private space, men's and women's roles in science and technology, the effects of industrialization on sexual divisions of labor, gender and identity at home and at work.

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Deborah Fitzgerald. STS.049J Technology and Gender in American History. Spring 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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