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Economic
History Society, Women’s Committee 21st Annual Workshop
6
November 2010
Institute
of Historical Research, Russell Square, London
Technology and Gender
9.30-10.00
Coffee and Registration
10.00-10.10
Welcome
10.10-11.00
The Queen
Mother vs the Bionic Man: older women and medical technology
Julie Anderson
(University of Kent)
11.00-11.50
What is a significant
technology?
Francesca Bray
(University of Edinburgh)
11.50-12.10 Coffee
12.10-13.00
Gendered
technologies revisited
Wendy Gamber
(University of Indiana)
13.00-14.00 Lunch and meeting of the
Women’s Committee
14.00-14.50
The
married lives of the engineers: gender issues in domesticating electricity
Graeme Gooday
(University of Leeds)
14.50-15.40
Technology
and gender: some perspectives from Japan
Janet Hunter (London
School of Economics)
15.40-15.50 Tea
15.50-16.40
Museums of machinery: how technology
and science took a masculine shape in 19th-century Europe
Chris MacLeod
(University of Bristol)
16.40-17.30
Making the
car domestic technology: American women at the wheel
Maggie Walsh
(University of Nottingham)
17.30-18.00 General discussion and
conclusion
Workshop
fees: £25 non-members, £20 members, £15 unwaged.
Ten
free places available for postgraduates on a first come first served basis.
To
book, by the deadline of 1
November, please email Dr Francesca Carnevali, School of
History and Cultures, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT: [log in to unmask]
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WORKSHOP
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