» Help Us http://women-in-technological-history.net Fri, 07 May 2010 18:07:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Need inputs for bibliography http://women-in-technological-history.net/2008/05/need-inputs-for-bibliography/ http://women-in-technological-history.net/2008/05/need-inputs-for-bibliography/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 17:41:58 +0000 minsuh http://www.women-in-technological-history.net/archives/33 .!.

Just a reminder that Daryl Hafter and I are compiling a bibliography of works on women and technology for the Lisbon 2008 meeting.  Please send me authors and titles of your favorite articles and books, including your own! Copies of your syllabi will work just fine.

Thanks, Rachel Maines

]]> http://women-in-technological-history.net/2008/05/need-inputs-for-bibliography/feed/ 1 Name this Object http://women-in-technological-history.net/2008/03/name-this-object/ http://women-in-technological-history.net/2008/03/name-this-object/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:39:02 +0000 minsuh http://www.women-in-technological-history.net/archives/31 Here in Townsville we believe this is definitely a home-made craft tool. Don’t really understand its size. If small – possibly for poker work. If big enough to hold between the knees – probably basket work.

Di

]]> http://women-in-technological-history.net/2008/03/name-this-object/feed/ 0 Link to mystery tool- http://women-in-technological-history.net/2008/03/link-to-mystery-tool/ http://women-in-technological-history.net/2008/03/link-to-mystery-tool/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:42:46 +0000 melanie http://www.women-in-technological-history.net/archives/28 The complete link for the mystery tool is here and here

“Withniks,

Perhaps you can help with this puzzle. We have, in our very small museum, this tool:
http://people.whitman.edu/~lermanne/museum/What-is-this.html

If you could tell me of a similar tool, a person who may know about it, or any published information on such tools, the student in my Social History of Stuff” class who adopted it for her “artifact journal” (and indeed the museum staff) will be most grateful.

Many thanks! Nina”

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Just received the following from a local high school teacher:

“I would be interested if any of you know where the name “Murgatroyd” came from for a female student at MIT in the 1940s. I recall seeing a caricature of the flat-chested nerdy-looking “Murgatroyd” in my Dad’s yearbook or newsletter or something, but I can’t find it anywhere in the papers he left behind. (There were very few women in my Dad’s class of 1948. He was so disappointed that I didn’t want to go there in 1967!) Google didn’t help, so I went to the MIT website to read about the history of female students. (First female student 1871)”

I’m stumped. Does anyone have any ideas?

thanks,

Heather Munro Prescott, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Coordinator, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Central Connecticut State University

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