Tinkering with technological skill: An examination of the gendered uses of technologies

Computers and Composition

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-23

  Aschauer, Ann Brady ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Determinism; Essentialism; Feminism; Gendered use; M tis; Problem solving; Rhetoric; Rhetorical technologies; Techn ; Technical communicator; Technical skill; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033473518     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8755-4615(99)80003-6     Document Type: Article

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