Hello, Central?: Gender, Technology, and Culture in the Formation of Telephone Systems
ISBN: 9780773562868
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Telephone -- Ontario -- History; Telephone -- Quebec (Province) -- History;

In most studies of technological development, women are portrayed as passive victims of new technology. In contrast, in "Hello, Central?" Michèle Martin reveals the significant impact women had on the development of telephone systems.

Martin Michèle :

Michèle Martin is professor emerita in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.


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