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Volume 18 Number 4
Winter 1999/2000
Gender and Computer Technologies

Guest Editors: Mary Wyer and Alison Adam


Departments

    3  Call for Papers - ISTAS 2000, Rome Italy

    Guest Editorial
    Gender and Computer Technologies

    Call for Papers - Special Issue on the Social Implications of Systems Concepts and Technology

    35  Review - Just Add Girls and Stir?

    37  Review - Visions of Technology

    39  Review - The Golem at Large

    43  Tribute - Joseph A. Wujek

    44  News -  ISTAS 1999

    46  1999 Year-End Index

Articles

    8  Tinysex and Gender Trouble
    Computer technologies provide unique opportunities to explore gender identities.
    Sherry Turkle

    13  Caring About Connections: Gender and Computing*
    The women in this study frequently link interest in computer science to a larger societal framework.
    Jane Margolis, Allan Fisher, and Faye Miller

    21  Exceptional Women? Gender and Technology in U.K. Higher Education*
    How women are understood by others can affect what their technical competence means to them.
    Flis Henwood

    28  The Promise of Computer-Based Learning Designing for Inclusivity *
    How to design courses that reflect inclusive design guidelines
    Katy Campbell
     
     

    * Refereed Article