Bringing Technology Home: Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe

Looking for the gender/technology relation sweeping away the dust of tradition - vacuum cleaning as a site of technical and social innovation "let's nuke the dinner" - discursive practices of gender in the creation of a new cooking process computerization in Greek banking - the gendering of jobs and payment practices women users in the design process of a food robot - innovation in a French domestic appliance company technological flexibility - bringing gender into technology (or was it the other way round?) hopes and disappointments of technological change - a case study in Russian hosiery production bodies, machines and male power women, technology and societal failure in former Yugoslavia a gendered socio-technical construction - the smart house.