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Isis International Bulletin 24

Women and New Technology

  Editorial 4
  Introduction  
  Women and Electronics 7
  The Micro Revolution 8
  How it is done 11
  Section I : Profile of Women in the Electronics Industry  
  Overview of Women Industrial Workers in Malaysia 12
  Health and Profit in the Electronics Industry 19
  Maquiladoras 20
  Growing Resistance 21
  Section II : The Impact of Microelectronics on Women Workers  
  Technology and Employment: Women's Job Displacement 23
  Is even Patriarchy not Sacred? 27
  Domestic Technology — Liberator or Enslaver? 28
  Section III : Women Taking Control of New Technology  
  International Solidarity 30
  Women's Network on Global Corporations 30
  Pushing our own Buttons : The Feminist Computer Technology Project   32
  Are Computers Feminist? 34
  Feminist Groups on New Technology 35
  Groups Working on Multinationals 35
  Selected Literature Resources 38