Nattering on the Net

By Dale Spender

Book Overview

Is it true that women use technology, but that men fall in love with it? What are the effects of electronic networks, of cyber-relationships on class, race and gender boundaries? Dale Spender reveals that men are writing the road rules for the superhighway and subjecting women to new forms of harassment, virtual violence and data rape. But she also conveys her sheer delight in these new technologies arguing that it is creating unimaginable opportunities in education and authoring.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1875559094
• ISBN13: 9781875559091
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Spinifex Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

There's only one chapter about cyberspace, kids.

I definitely expected something different, but was not entirely disappointed with this book. Basically, Spender spends 95% of this book making sure the reader knows that women have seldom been dealt a fair hand when it comes to technological advances that involve the spread of information. A good introduction for people who've been living in a cave for thousands of years. She basically uses a brief chapter on the implications of cyberspace for women - how it is paramount that they be taught to use computers, etc., if they are to survive in the world of men - to bring her argument full-circle. A good read, but I expected more cyber-goodness.

Excellent, informative, well-written book

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which is not at all a how-to manual, but a philosophical yet lively, easy-to-read analysis of women and the internet: how the new medium affects how they relate to men, each other and the technology itself. Highly recommended for anyone interested in feminism, whether or not they have on-line experience.