Download or read book Women Encounter Technology written by Swasti Mitter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide. The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.