Judy Wajcman

Judy Wajcman

Judy Wajcman (* 1950 in Australia ) is a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and heads the Department of Sociology . She can be described as one of the most important representatives of the feminist sociology of technology .

In 2016 she was elected to the British Academy .

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Her works are in the context of the Social Construction of Technology , where she is under feminist aspects of technological change, work and context of technology ( technology () and sex gender is concerned). One of their theories is that stereotypical technology or technology as men - culture is seen to lead their inherent interests to the exclusion of women such as read. B. the gender-specific division of labor and the male-dominated access to technological knowledge. This is followed by the widespread experience that in medicine the female body is degraded to a (reproductive, externally controlled) machine.

Judy Wajcman uses the catchphrase technofeminism to analyze how techniques / technologies are gender- coded and how gender politics can define change here with the help of postmodern and feminist theories as well as science and technology research.

Publications (selection)

• Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers' Co-operative . Milton Keynes, The Open University Press 1983
• Feminism Confronts Technology . Cambridge, Polity Press, 1991 (German: Technology and Gender. The Feminist Technology Debate, Frankfurt / New York, Campus, 1994)
• Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management . Cambridge, Polity Press, 1998
• Technofeminism . Cambridge, Polity Press, 2004

Web links

• Judy Wajcman's homepage at the ANU
• Transmediale 2015: Capture All_Work, Keynote by Judy Wajcman (Video)
• Literature by and about Judy Wajcman in the catalog of the German National Library