Sally Hacker

Sally Hacker

Sally Lynn Hacker (born 1936, died 1988) was a feminist sociologist.

Hacker investigated the cultures surrounding technology. As a sociologist she returned to school to study engineering. The American Sociological Association awards a graduate student paper award each year in her memory.

Publications

* "Pleasure, Power, and Technology: Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace", Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1989. ISBN 0-04-445204-7. Hacker's last book, it was highly praised [ Elizabeth Maret, review in "Contemporary Sociology", Vol. 19, No. 5. (Sep., 1990), p. 700 ] .

* Several of Hacker's articles were collected and posthumously complied in "Doing it the Hard Way: Investigations of Gender and Technology", Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1990. ISBN 0-04-445434-1, which was similarly commended [ Bonnie Wright and Heidi Gottfried, review in "Contemporary Sociology", Vol. 21, No. 3. (May, 1992), p. 330. ] .

* "The eye of the beholder: An essay on technology and eroticism" in Sally Hacker, Dorothy Smith & Susan Turner (Eds.), "Investigations of gender and technology", Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1990.

ources

* Obituary for Sally Hacker (1936-1988), "Science, Technology, & Human Values", Vol. 14, No. 2. (Spring, 1989), pp. 221-223.

External links

[http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00610 Biography]

References


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