Estudios feministas sobre tecnología: un repaso de los comienzos

Abstract

Many feminist scholars started to focus their attention on technology in the eighties. A common feature of these feminist studies on technology is the belief in the existence of certain sex bias within technology. We can identify different kinds of approaches in this field, from the ones who search for «forgotten women» in the records of traditional histories of technology, to those that analyze the explicit and implicit barriers hindering the access of women to technology, aspects related to educational and pedagogical issues, as well as epistemological studies about the relationship between gender and technology. Within the last block, feminist studies are in open debate with social constructivist studies of technology.