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Book review: girls coming to tech! a history of American engineering education for women by Amy Sue Bix

Tanczer, Leonie Maria (2014) Book review: girls coming to tech! a history of American engineering education for women by Amy Sue Bix. LSE Review of Books (23 May 2014). Website.

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Abstract

In an era when technology is still associated with masculinity, Girls Coming to Tech is an important and timely investigation of the gendered history of engineering education in the United States. Amy Sue Bix has done a great job examining the rhetorical traps, social and political obstacles, as well as the widespread hypocrisy around the debates of coeducation in the course of the last century. Although Leonie Maria Tanczer feels conflicted about the title, she encourages engineering students and educators, and scholars of both women’s history and science and technology studies, to read this chronological analysis of women’s struggle to enter this male-dominated territory.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information: © 2014 The Author
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited: 04 Jul 2014 11:25
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 19:15
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/57494

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