Women's Studies Quarterly : Women and New Technology

As new information and biological technologies dramatically transform everyday life, they pose urgent questions for women.

What are the impacts of these new technologies on the body, the workplace, and the home?

To what extent are women using, resisting, and shaping these technologies?

How can we develop more effective ways to extend high-tech access to women and minorities? And how can we close the gender gap that maintains a male-dominated hold on advanced technology?

In this landmark issue of 'Women's Studies Quarterly', teachers, scholars, web-designers, librarians, and poets address these crucial questions.

Their articles, case studies, and interviews with leaders and workers in these fields provide a grounded discussion and much-needed foundation for the theoretical formulations that have emerged over the past decade.

Contributors look at access and training issues, confidentiality questions, and the construction of women's bodies in cyberspace.

They examine the pedagogical value of the Internet and consider ways to develop curricula for more female-friendly science. Complementing this analysis is the work of poets and digital artists, who express through metaphor and visual image the impacts that the new technologies are having on our senses.