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Amy Bix

 Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).

"Equipped For Life: Gendered Technical Training and Consumerism In Home-Economics, 1920-1980", Technology and Culture v. 43, no. 4 (Oct. 2002): 728-754.

 "History of Women in Science, Technology, and Medicine," Transforming the Disciplines: A Women's Studies Primer, Elizabeth MacNabb et al., ed. (New York: Haworth Press, 2001): 193-201.

"Feminism Where Men Predominate: The History of Women’s Science and Engineering Education at MIT," Women’s Studies Quarterly, special issue on women and science, v. XXVIII, no. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer, 2000): 24-45.

"‘Engineeresses’ Invade Campus: Four Decades of Debate over Technical Coeducation," IEEE Technology and Society Magazine; v. 19, no. 1 (spring, 2000): 20-26.

"'Backing into Sponsored Research': Physics and Engineering at Princeton University, 1945-1970," History of Higher Education Annual 1993 - The Modern University: Studies in Adaptation; v. 13 (1993): 9-52.

 

David Morton

Books

Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America (Rutgers University Press, 2000).

Monographs

From Edison to MP3: A Biography of Sound Recording (Greenwood Press, forthcoming in 2004)

A History of Electronic Entertainment Since 1945 (IEEE, 1999)

Power: Electric Power Technology Since 1945 (IEEE, 2000)

Peer-reviewed articles

"Reviewing the History of Electric Power and Electrification," Endeavour, 26 (June 2002).

"Armour Research Foundation and the Wire Recorder: How Academic Entrepreneurs Fail," Technology and Culture 39 (April 1998).

"'The Rusty Ribbon': John Herbert Orr and the Making of the Magnetic Recording Industry, 1945-1960," Business History Review (Winter 1993).

"The Magic of Your Dial: Amos Joel and the Development of Electronic Switching at Bell Laboratories," in Frederik Nebeker, editor, Sparks of Genius (IEEE Press, 1993).

"The Engineer and the Millwright: Traditional and Modern Technologies at Cochran's Mill Park, Fulton County, Georgia," Early Georgia (December 1993).

"The Commercialization of FM Radio in the United States," in The Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, Vol. 8 (Marcel Dekker, 1993).

Edited volumes/journal issues

Editor, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, 2000.

Guest editor, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Special Issue on Women and Technology, Spring 2000.

 

Julie Wosk

 

Women and the Machine: Representations From the Spinning Wheel to the
Electronic Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). 

 "Perspectives on the Escalator i n Photography and Art," in Alisa Goetz, ed., Up,
Down, Across: Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Sidewalks (Washington, D. C.: National Building
Museum/Merrell Pub. Co), 2003.

"Photographing Devastation: Three New York Exhibits of 11 September 2001," 
Technology and Culture 43, no. 4 (October 2002), 771-76.
Ruth Oldenzeil

Books

Gender and Technology. A Reader, eds. Nina Lerman, Ruth Oldenziel and Arwen Mohun (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2003)

Building Bridges, Crossing Boundaries. Comparing the History of Women Engineers, 1870s-1990, eds. Ruth Oldenziel, Annie Canel, and Karin Zachmann, introduction by Ruth Schwartz Cowan (London: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2000)

Making Technology Masculine: Women, Men, and the Machine in America, 1880-1945 (Amsterdam/Ann Arbor: Amsterdam University Press/Chicago University Press, 1999)

Gender and the Meanings of Technology: Engineering in the U.S., 1800-1945 (UMI: Yale University dissertation, 1992)

Articles

‘Man the Maker, Woman the Consumer: The Consumption Junction Revisited’ in Angela Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, Catherine R. Stimpson and Londa Schiebinger eds., Feminism in Twenthieth Century Science, Technology and Medicine (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2001) 128-148

‘Multiple Entry Visa: Women Engineers in the U.S., 1877-1945’ in Ruth Oldenziel, Annie Canel, and Karin Zachmann eds., Building Bridges, Crossing Boundaries. Comparing the History of Women Engineers introduction by Ruth Schwartz Cowan (London: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000) 11-46 Awarded Best Article History of Science Society 2002

‘Gender and Scientific Management: Women and the History of the International Institute for Industrial Relations, 1922-1946’ Journal of Management History 6, 7 (2000) 323-342

‘Decoding the Silence: Women Engineers and Male Culture in the U.S., 1878-1951,’ History and Technology 14, 3 (1997) 1-31

‘Boys and Their Toys: The Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild and the Making of a Male Technical Domain, 1930-1968’ Technology and Culture 38, 1 (January 1997) 60-96; Reprinted in abbreviated version in Roe Merritt Smith and Gregory Cleancy eds., Major Issues in the History of Technology. Documents and Essays (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998); unabridged reprint in Roger Horowitz ed., Boys and Their Toys. Technology and Manliness (London: Routledge, 2001) 139-168; unabridged reprint as ‘Why Masculine Technologies Matter’ in The History of Gender and Technology in North America Reader, eds. Nina Lerman, Ruth Oldenziel and Arwen Mohun (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2003)

‘Versatile Tools: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology’ Nina Lerman, Arwen Mohun and Ruth Oldenziel, Technology and Culture 38, 1 (January 1997) 1-9

‘The Shoulders We Stand On and the View From Here: Historiography and the Directions of Research’ Nina Lerman, Arwen Mohun and Ruth Oldenziel, Technology and Culture 38, 1 (January 1997) 9-30; translated in French ‘L'histoire des techniques et la question du genre. Etat des travaux et perspectives pour l’avenir’’ with Nina Lerman, Arwen Mohun in Danielle Chabaud Richter and Delphine Gardey eds. L'engendrement des choses: des hommes, des femmes, et des techniques (Paris: Editions des Archives Contemporaines, 2002)

'Object/ions: Technology, Culture and Gender,’ in W.D. Kingery and Steve Lubar eds., Learning from Things (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996) 55-69

‘Of Old and New Cyborgs: Feminist Narratives of Technology,’ Letterature d'America (1996) 95-11

Books in Dutch

Huishoudtechnologie. Techniek in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw. Vol. IV (Zutphen: Walburg pers, 2001)

Schoon genoeg. Huisvrouwen en huishoudtechnologie, 1898-1998 ed. Ruth Oldenziel and Carolien Bouw (Nijmegen: SUN, 1998)

Articles in Dutch

"Gender in zwart-wit anno 1950" Tijdschrift voor sociale geschiedenis 29, 1 (2003) 80-89

‘Women’s Organizations as Producers of Consumption and Citizenship, 1880-1980’ coauthored with L. Bervoets Tijdschrift voor sociale geschiedenis 28, 3 (2002) 273-300

‘Huisvrouwen, hun strategieën en apparaten 1898-1998’ in Ruth Oldenziel and Carolien Bouw eds., Schoon Genoeg. Huisvrouwen en huishoudtechnologie in Nederland 1898-1998 (Nijmegen: SUN, 1998) 9-30

‘Het geslacht der dingen: technologie, gender en beleid’ in Margo Brouns, Jeanne de Bruyn and Alkeline van Lenning eds., Inzichten uit vrouwenstudies: uitdagingen voor beleidsmakers (Den Haag: Vuga1995) 147-174

‘Gender en materie in de tijd van post-structurele theorieën,’ in Carolien Bouw, Jeanne de Bruyn and Dione van der Heyden eds., Van alle markten thuis: vrouwen- en genderstudies in Nederland (Amsterdam: Babylon/de Geus 1994) 169-183

'E-mail bericht aan Shulamith Firestone: over machines van lucht en licht’ in Rosi Braidotti ed., Poste Restante: Feministische berichten uit het post-moderne (Kampen: Kok Agora, 1994) 13-30

 

Denise Pilato

“Martha Coston: A Woman, a War, and a Signal to the World.” International Journal of Naval History, Vol. 1, April (http:// www.ijnhonline.org), 2002.

Retrieval of a Legacy: Nineteenth Century American Women Inventors. Westport, CT:Praeger Publishers, 2000.

“A Bibliography for the Cross-Culture Study of Women’s Lives” (co-authored with Judith
K. Brown and Therese Sarah) in Women Among Women: Anthropological Perspectives on Women’s Age Hierarchies. Jeanette Dickerson-Putnam and Judith K. Brown, Eds. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1997.

African American Quiltmaking in Michigan by Marsha MacDowell (contributor: oral
histories ). East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1997.