Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology

摘要: Written in an engaging and accessible style, this first broadly focused compensatory history of technology not only includes women's contributions but begins the long-overdue task redefining significant to value these correctly. Stanley traces inventions five vital areas worldwide-agriculture, medicine, reproduction, machines, computers-from prehistory (or origin) forward, profiling hundreds women, both famous obscure. The author does ignore theory. She contributes a paradigm for male takeovers technologies originated by women.