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Gender and Technology: Interventions and Intersections Reflections on the work of Eileen Green over 20 years Flis Henwood, University of Brighton
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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)
GEN
DER
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BY D
ES
IGN
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• Sociological research on gender relations in workplace, focusing on IT
• Computer systems design research
‘DES
PER
ATELY
SEEK
ING
C
ERTA
INTY’
•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
EILE
EN
’S C
ON
TR
IBU
TIO
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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!
