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SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 87-119Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/016224390002500104
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This article seek; to open up a new avenue for feminist technology studies-gender-aware research on engineers and engineering practice-on the grounds that engineers are powerful symbols of the equation between masculinity and technology and occupy significant roles in shaping new technologies. Drawing on the disparate evidence available, the author explores four themes. The first asks why the equation between masculinity and technology is so durable when there are such huge mismatches between image and practice. The second examines this mismatch in the detail of engineering knowledge and practice to reveal that fractured and contradictory constructions of masculinity frequently coexist. The third theme addresses the suggestion that women and men might bring different styles to engineering. Finally the author explores subjective experiences of engineering to argue that engineers' shared pleasures in and identification with technology both define what it means to be an engineer and provide appealing symbols of power that act to compensate for a perceived lack of power or competence in other arenas.
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