Signifying semantics for a history of technology

Technology and Culture

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 477-485

  Oldenziel, Ruth ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33748539052     PISSN: 0040165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2006.0194     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. Joan W. Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," American Historical Review 91 (December 1986): 1053-75.
2. Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (London, 1976).
3. Ruth Oldenziel, "Gender and the Meanings of Technology: Engineering in the U.S., 1880-1945" (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1992).
4. Nina E. Lerman, "The Uses of Useful Knowledge: Science, Technology, and Social Boundaries in an Industrializing City," in Osiris: Special Issue-Women, Gender, and the Science Question, ed. Sally Kolhstedt and Ellen Longino (1997);
5. Ronald Kline, "Construing 'Technology' as 'Applied Science': Public Rhetoric of Scientists and Engineers in the United States, 1880-1945," Isis 86 (1995): 194-221.
6. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago, 1980).
7. On Veblen's influence in America, see H. L. Mencken, "Professor Veblen and the Cow," Smart Set 59 (May 1919): 138-44;
8. Lewis A. Coser, Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social Context, 2nd ed. (New York, 1977), 263-302;
9. Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (New York, 1934), 25, 55, 96, 226, 284, 317, 354, 366, 401, 472, 475.
10. I am grateful to Nina Lerman for this insight (personal communication, June 1998). See also Nina E. Lerman, "New South, New North: Region, Ideology, and Access in Industrial Education," in Technology and the African-American Experience: Needs and Opportunities for Study, ed. Bruce Sinclair (Cambridge, Mass., 2004).
11. Ann J. Lane, Mary Ritter Beard: A Sourcebook (New York, 1977), 47, 219-20, and chaps. 3, 5;
12. Nancy F. Cott, ed., A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard through Her Letters (New Haven, Conn., 1991), 3, 26-27, 248;
13. Mary Ritter Beard, Woman as Force in History (New York, 1946).
14. Cott, A Woman Making History, 51, 221, 227, 237-8, 247-51, 283-4.
15. William A. Lydgate, "The 32 Million-Work Classic," Saturday Review, 2 May 1942, 3-4, 22-23.
16. Willard Huntington Wright, Misinforming a Nation (New York, 1917), 19, contested the Encyclopædia Britannica's canonical claims;
17. cf. Henry Harrison, "The Engineer and the Encyclopaedia" Cassier's 40 (December 1911): 753-60.