References -- Women in Cyberspace

Agre, Phil. Networking on the Network. Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, May 1994. (View as text)
Borg, Anita. (1993). The rationale for a closed electronic forum. Position paper for "Gender Issues in Computers and Telecommunications" panel delivered to Third Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, Burlingame, CA, March 1993.
Bruckman, Amy. (1993). Gender swapping on the Internet.
Carmichael, Joan. In a Different Format: Connecting Women, Computers, and Education Using Gilligan's Framework. Masters thesis. Concordia University, Canada, 1991.
Chaika, Melissa. Ethical Considerations in Gender-Oriented Entertainment Technology. Crossroads (ACM Student Magazine), Vol. 2, No. 2, Nov. 1995. (View as text)
Cherny, Lynn and Weise, Elizabeth (Eds.). Wired Women: Gender and Social Reality in Cyberspace. Seal Press, Seattle, pp. 188-204, April 1996.
Collis, B. Psychological Implications of Sex Differences in Attitudes Towards Computers: Results of a Survey. International Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 8, pp. 207-213, 1985.
Cunningham, Sally Jo. Guidelines for an Introduction to Networking: A Review of the Literature. The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, Vol. 2, Issue 3, July 26, 1994, (View as text)
DeBare, Ilana. Women in Computing: Logged On or Left Out?. A Sacramento Bee Special Report, Jan. 21, 1996. Includes articles on women in the computer industry, profiles of women in the computer business, secretaries and computers, women on-line, girls and computing, girls and video games, and raising computer-savvy kids. (View hypertext site)
Ebben, Maureen; Kramarae, Cheris. (1993). Women and Information technologies: creating a cyberspace of our own, pp. 15-27 in Women, Information Technology, & Scholarship, ed. Taylor, Kramarae, Ebben. Urbana, Il: WITS Colloquium. Center for Advanced Study.
Edwards, Paul. Gender and the Cultural Construction of Computing, adapted from "From 'Impact' to Social Process: Case Studies of Computers in Politics, Society, and Culture, Chapter IV-A," Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Beverly Hills: Sage Press, 1993.
Edwards. Paul. The Army and the Microworld: computers and the politics of gender identity. Signs v.16, n.1 (1990):102-127.
Enger, Natalie. Help is where you find it. Open Computing, Volume 11, Number 12, December 1994, p62. Women find help and support in women's cyberspace forums, such as Systers, ECHO, the Well, Women's Wire, and others.
Frissen, Valerie. Trapped in Electronic Cages?: Gender and New Information Technologies in the Public and Private Domain: an Overview of Research. Media, Culture and Society v. 14 (1992):31-49.
Fulton, M.A. A Research Model for Studying the Gender/Power of Human-Computer Communication. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 23, pp. 369-382, 1985.
Gender Issues in Computing and Telecommunications. From the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, Burlingame, CA, March 1993. (Audiotape of panel available from Audio Archives, La Crescenta, CA.)
Gilbert, Laurel, and Kile, Crystal. SurferGrrrls: Look, Ethel, An Internet Book for Us! Seal Press, 1996.
Greenbaum, Joan. The head and the heart: using gender analysis to study the social construction of computer systems. Computers & Society v.20, n.2 (June 1990):9-17.
Herring, Susan C. Gender & democracy in computer-mediated-communication. Electronic Journal of Communication 3(2) (1993).
Huff, Charles W.; Fleming, John H.; and Cooper Joel. 1992. Gender differences in human-computer interaction, Search of Gender Free Paradigms for Computer Science Education, edited by C. Dianne Martin and Eric Murchie-Beyma. Eugene OR: International Society for Technology in Education.
Kaplan, Nancy, and Farrell, Eva. Weavers of Webs: A Portrait of Young Women on the Net. The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, Vol. 2, Issue 3, July 26, 1994. (View as text)
Kiesler, Sara, Siegel, J., and McGuire, T.W. Social Psychological Aspects of Computer-mediated Communication. American Psychologist, Vol. 39, pp. 1123-1134, 1984. Also in Charles Dunlop and Rob Kling, editors, Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, Academic Press, 1991, pp. 330-349.
Kiesler, S., Sproull, L., and Eccles, J.S. Pool halls, chips, and war games: Women in the culture of computing. Psych. of Women Q., 9 (1985), pp 451-462.
Kirkup, Gill. The Social Construction of Computers: Hammers or Harpsichords? Inventing Women: Science, Technology, and Gender. Ed. Kirkup; Keller. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992, p. 267-281.
Kramer, Pamela E.; Sheila Lehman. Mismeasuring Women: a Critique of Research on Computer Ability and Avoidance. Signs v.16, n.1 (1990):158-172.
Kramarae, Cheris, ed. Women, Information Technology, and Scholarship. Champagne-Urbana: University of Illinois, 1993.
Kramarae, Cheris, Taylor, Jeanie. Electronic Networks: Safe For Women? The Electronic Salon: Feminism Meets Infotech: in connection with the 11th Annual Gender Studies Symposium. Speech Communication, and Sociology, March 1992. [This is a draft of a paper prepared for the Gender, Technology and Ethics conference held in Lulea, Sweden, June 1-2, 1992]. (View as text)
Kramarae, Cheris, and Taylor, Jeanie. Women and men on electronic networks: a conversation or a monologue? Women, Information Technology, and Scholarship. Urbana, Il: Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, 1993, pp. 52-61.
Laurel, Brenda. Computers as Theatre. Addison-Wesley, 1991.
Los Angeles Times Roundtable on Women in Computing. April 1994. (View as text)
Michel, Kathleen. (1992). Gender differences in computer-mediated conversations. (Available via KIDLINK.)
NetGuide Magazine Online Search. Searching for the word "women" will bring up archived articles relating to women and the Internet, glass ceiling issues, and so on.
Ong, Aihwa. Disassembling Gender in the Electronics Age. Feminist Studies 13 (Fall 1987):609-626.
Perry, Ruth, and Greber, Lisa. Women and computers: an introduction. Signs v. 16, n.1 (1990): 74-101.
Rakow, Lana. Impact of New Technologies on Women as Producers & Consumers of Communication in the U.S. and Canada. Paris: Unesco, 1991.
Reid. Electropolis: Communication and Community on Internet Relay Chat. Honours Thesis, 1991, University Of Melbourne.
Shade, Leslie Regan. Gender Issues Bibliography. (View as text)
Shade, Leslie Regan. Gender Issues in Computer Networking. McGill University, Graduate Program in Communications, August 1993. (Keynote Presentation given at Community Networking: the International Free-Net Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, CA, Aug. 17-19, 1993.) (View as text)
Shade, Leslie Regan; Gladys We. The Gender of Cyberspace. Internet Business Journal, v.1, n.2 (Summer 1993):
Truong, Hoai-An. (1993, March). Gender Issues in Online Communications. Paper Presented at Third Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, Burlingame, CA, March 1993. [In conjunction with BAWIT-Bay Area Women in Telecommunications] View as text.
Turkle, S. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. (On individuals' reactions to computers.)
Ware, M.C., and Stuck, M.F. Sex-role Messages Vie-a-Vie Microcomputer Use: A look at the Pictures. Sex Roles, Vol. 13, pp. 205-214, 1985.
We, Gladys. Cross-Gender Communication in Cyberspace. Graduate research paper, Dept. of Communication, Simon Fraser University, April 1993. (View as text)
Women in Computing in 1996: A Special Report of the McGraw-Hill Companies, January 1996. (Includes the McGraw-Hill Companies Top 100 Women in Computing, What it Takes by Bronwyn Fryer, Women in Computing: One Year Later by Leslie Crawford, and Women Helping Women by Natalie Engler.)

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