EWS 425 Gender, Ethnicity and Technology
Theoretical Approaches
Based on the assigned
readings Introduction:Women Hold Up Two Thirds of the Sky and "Gender Socialization,"
identify and expand upon the following:
1.How does Karl Marx's classic theory of class conflict and the idea that social class and control to means of producation apply to gender and
the imbalance of power between women and men? See Marx
2.What is the Take Over Theory? Give examples from history and anthropology where the Take Over Theory is exemplified.
3.What is the matriarchy perplex? How does work specialization either contribute to women having or lacking power in other
areas of life? Explain Peggy Sanday's theory regarding the power relationship between the sexes and the economic contributions
of either sex.
4.How do changes in technologies affect the power balance between women and men?
5. What do we now know about the role of women as inventors? See: Women in the History of Technology:Women Inventors