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In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 27 Jan 2024 03:28:28
In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South"
English | ISBN: 1503636143 | 2023 | 260 pages | EPUB | 4 MB

Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, prompting movements to train individuals in information and communication technologies and foster the participation and retention of women in science and technology fields. In this book, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle argues that these efforts have given rise to an idealized, female economic figure that combines technological dexterity and keen entrepreneurial instinct with gendered stereotypes of care and selflessness. Narratives about the "equalizing" potential of digital technologies spotlight these women's capacity to overcome inequality using said technologies, ignoring the barriers and circumstances that create such inequality in the first place as well as the potentially violent role of technology in their lives.
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