"Beards, Sandals, and Other Signs of Rugged Individualism": Masculine Culture within the Computing Professions.
Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, male computer experts were able to successfully transform the "routine and mechanical" (and therefore feminized) activity of computer programming into a highly valued, well-paying, and professionally respectable discipline. They did so by constructing for them...
| Publicado en: | Osiris Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 38 - 66 |
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University of Chicago Press
2015
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