Spotlighting technology users, this book presents a European history in which ordinary people wielded the power to affect designs and innovations. The authors show that mechanization has not taken command of our lives in the last 150 years. Instead, user movements have appropriated technology and sh[...]
For most of human experience, certainly of late, the artifacts of technological civilization have become closely associated with gender, sometimes for physiological reasons (brassieres or condoms, for example) but more often because of social and cultural factors, both obvious and obscure. Because t[...]