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Tables of Contents for Virtual Gender
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of contributors
viii
List of tables and figures
xiii
Preface
xiv
PART I Gendered access and experience of ICTs and the Internet
1
100
Women and the Internet: the natural history of a research project
3
25
Anne Scott
Lesley Semmens
Lynette Willoughby
Gender in email-based co-operative problem-solving
28
17
Greg Michaelson
Margit Pohl
Lives and livelihoods in the technological age
45
18
Kate White
Leslie Regan Shade
Jennifer Brayton
Becoming a technologist: days in a girl's life
63
21
Linda Stepulevage
Theoretical reflections on networking in practice: the case of women on the Net
84
17
Gillian Youngs
PART II Leisure, pleasure and consumption
101
106
Understanding computer game cultures: a situated approach
103
21
Simeon J. Yates
Karen Littleton
Visual pleasure in textual places: gazing in multi-user object-oriented worlds
124
26
Michele White
Strange yet stylish headgear: virtual reality consumption and the construction of gender
150
23
Nicola Green
Technology, leisure and everyday practices
173
16
Eileen Green
Men, masculinities and `mundane' technologies: the domestic telephone
189
18
Maria Lohan
PART III Citizens at work and in the community
207
56
Cyberstalking: gender and computer ethics
209
16
Alison Adam
Gender and citizenship in the information society: women's information technology groups in North Karelia
225
16
Marja Vehvilainen
Gender in the design of the digital city of Amsterdam
241
22
Els Rommes
Ellen Van Oost
Nelly Oudshoorn
PART IV Identity and self: gendered play, virtual reality and cyborgization
263
60
The social geography of gender-switching in virtual environments on the Internet
265
21
Lynne D. Roberts
Malcolm R. Parks
A camera with a view: JenniCAM, visual representation and cyborg subjectivity
286
16
Krissi M. Jimroglou
Cyborgs or goddesses?: Becoming divine in a cyberfeminist age
302
21
Elaine Graham
Index
323