ICTs and inequality: Women’s acquisitions in the net?
Keywords:
information and communication technologies (ICTs), gender, cyber-feminism, techno-feminismAbstract
This text approaches gender relations within the information and communication technologies (ICTs). Having social studies on technology as a reference, it states that the ideas on gender practices inform about the design, production and use of ITCs, and therefore technical devices and culture play an important role in shaping gender identity. It also discusses in a critical way the cyber-feminist theories that perceive new ICTs as a possibility for women’s emancipation, as if these technologies, contrary to the previous ones, were per se liberating. It therefore makes a proposal on techno-feminism, as a feminist policy that critically analyzes the ways in which new technologies open new gender dynamics, and at the same time reflect old inequality patterns in contemporary societies.
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