Technologies and gender in development projects for indigenous women in Chaco
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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.clepsydra.2022.23.15Keywords:
technologies, gender, development, indigenous women, ChacoAbstract
This article takes up the contributions of feminist research to the field of Social Studies of Science and Technology. From an ethnographic perspective, it places the focus on the technologies aimed at indigenous Chaco women in development projects implemented by ecclesial initiatives in the last two decades of the 20th century that were aimed at promoting the participation of indigenous women in the public sphere. It analyzes the implications of the joint action of two technologies –the pedal sewing machine and the community room– in the work undertaken by missionary women with indigenous women from Chaco that allow us to explain the adoption of these technologies as a socio-historically situated phenomenon. The article uses the concepts «fluidity», «agency», and «functioning-non-functioning» of technologies from a gender perspective.
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