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_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dDLC
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100 1 _aShokooh Valle, Firuzeh
_eauthor.
_94760
245 1 0 _aIn defense of solidarity and pleasure:
_bfeminist technopolitics from the Global South /
264 1 _aStanford, California:
_bStanford University Press,
_c[2023].
300 _axiii, 245 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
505 0 _aIntroduction : feminist technopolitics and development -- The politics of discourse -- Solidarity -- Pleasure -- Uneasy alliances -- Conclusion : a feminist technological otherwise.
520 _a"Including women in the Global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, prompting movements to train individuals in information and communication technologies and foster the participation and retention of women in science and technology fields. In this book, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle argues that these efforts have given rise to an idealized, female economic figure that combines technological dexterity and keen entrepreneurial instinct with gendered stereotypes of care and selflessness. Narratives about the "equalizing" potential of digital technologies spotlight these women's capacity to overcome inequality using said technologies, ignoring the barriers and circumstances that create such inequality in the first place as well as the potentially violent role of technology in their lives. In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure examines how women in the Global South experience and resist the coopting and depoliticizing nature of these scripts. Drawing on fieldwork in Costa Rica and a transnational feminist digital organization, Shokooh Valle explores the ways that feminist activists, using digital technologies as well as a collective politics that prioritize solidarity and pleasure, advance a new feminist technopolitics"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aMulheres e tecnologia
_zDeveloping countries.
_92212
650 4 _aTecnologia da informação
_xAspectos sociais
_915
650 7 _aFeminismo
_93486
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aShokooh Valle, Firuzeh.
_tIn defense of solidarity and pleasure
_dStanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023
_z9781503636156
_w(DLC) 2022059363
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