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Tables of Contents for The Social Shaping of Technology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Notes on contributors
viii
2
Acknowledgements
x
3
Editors' note
xiii
1
Preface to the second edition
xiv
Part One Introductory essay and general issues
3
138
Introductory essay: the social shaping of technology
3
25
1 Do artifacts have politics?
28
13
Langdon Winner
2 Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium
41
9
Donna Haraway
3 Edison and electric light
50
14
Thomas P. Hughes
4 Inventing personal computing
64
23
Paul Ceruzzi
5 Constructing a bridge
87
19
Eda Kranakis
6 Competing technologies and economic prediction
106
7
W. Brian Arthur
7 The social construction of technology
113
3
Ronald Kline
Trevor Pinch
8 Redefining the social link: from baboons to humans
116
10
Shirley Strum
Bruno Latour
9 Caught in the wheels: the high cost of being a female cog in the male machinery of engineering
126
8
Cynthia Cockburn
10 Making `white' people white
134
7
Richard Dyer
Part Two The technology of production
141
128
Introduction
141
11
11 The watermill and feudal authority
152
4
Marc Bloch
12 The machine versus the worker
156
2
Karl Marx
13 Technology and capitalist control
158
3
Harry Braverman
14 Social choice in machine design: the case of automatically controlled machine tools
161
16
David F. Noble
15 The material of male power
177
22
Cynthia Cockburn
16 What machines can't do: politics and technology in the industrial enterprise
199
23
Robert J. Thomas
17 Writers, texts and writing acts: gendered user images in word processing software
222
22
Jeanette Hofmann
18 Learning by trying: the implementation of configurational technology
244
14
James Fleck
19 Working relations of technology production and use
258
11
Lucy Suchman
Part Three Reproductive technology
269
74
Introduction
269
12
20 The industrial revolution in the home
281
20
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
21 A gendered socio-technical construction: the smart house
301
13
Anne-Jorunn Berg
22 A woman's place: Dolores Hayden on the `grand domestic revolution'
314
4
Moyra Doorly
23 Inserting Grafenberg's IUD into the sex reform movement
318
7
Anni Dugdale
24 The decline of the one-size-fits-all paradigm, or, how reproductive scientists try to cope with postmodernity
325
18
Nelly Oudshoorn
Part Four Military technology
343
100
Introduction
343
8
25 Cold war and white heat: the origins and meanings of packet switching
351
21
Janet Abbate
26 Manufacturing gender in military cockpit design
372
10
Rachel N. Weber
27 The American Army and the M-16 rifle
382
13
James Fallows
28 The Thor-Jupiter controversy
395
11
Michael H. Armacost
29 The weapons succession process
406
13
Mary Kaldor
30 Theories of technology and the abolition of nuclear weapons
419
24
Donald MacKenzie
Bibliography
443
9
Index
452