Gender and Technology: Interventions and

IntersectionsReflections on the work of

Eileen Green over 20 years

Flis Henwood, University of Brighton

Interventions and Intersections

1. Gendered by design? Information Technology and Office Systems (1993)

2. ‘Desperately seeking certainty’- Innovative health technologies and the production of knowledge about women in mid-life (2006)

3. Informing gender? Health and ICTs in context (2009)

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• Sociological research on gender relations in workplace, focusing on IT

• Computer systems design research

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•Mid-life•Decision-making•Risk •Technology

INFORMING GENDER?

HEALTH AND ICTS IN

CONTEXT

•How gender shapes and is shaped by how ICTs are adopted and used in health care

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•Commitment to:

• Developing feminist theory

• Reflection on the social relations of research and feminist ways of working

• Interdisciplinarity• Politically and

socially engaged research

• Thanks!