{"id":110,"date":"2005-11-02T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apowell.mirverburg.net\/?p=110"},"modified":"2005-11-02T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T21:33:11","slug":"defining-myself-in-the-library-stacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"defining myself in the library stacks . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came home from the library today with the following:<\/p>\n<p>Hackers (Steven Levy)<br \/>\nDoing IT:  Women working in information technology (Krista Scott-Dixon)<br \/>\nSilicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream (Glenna Matthews)<br \/>\nLove, Power and Knowledge: Towards a feminist transformation of the sciences (Hilary Rose)<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to make sense of how I came to be a woman working in the man&#8217;s world of hacking, free software, and community technology, and also of the implications of where I have positioned myself in that world &#8211; outside, as an engaged and yet critical observer.  This is in some ways a gendered position (I am not by any means &#8220;one of the guys&#8221;) but it is a negotiated one, as the critical position also brings with it certain power, or as Donna Haraway argues, the trial and privilege of the &#8220;partial perspective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I got this <a href=http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/30\/magazine\/30feminism.html?hp>article<\/a> from a friend.  According to it, my chances of getting married go down as my IQ goes up, regardless of whether I&#8217;m comfortably holed up in the pink ghetto of the marketing department or butting heads in tech or R&#038;D.  Apparently, men are just plain intimidated by smart successful women, and feminism&#8217;s promises are perceived as not only wrong, but counter to evolution. I hope that the troubling social changes the article points to are taken as an indication of the necessity for feminism and not its irrelevance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came home from the library today with the following: Hackers (Steven Levy) Doing IT: Women working in information technology (Krista Scott-Dixon) Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream (Glenna Matthews) Love, Power and Knowledge: Towards a feminist transformation of the sciences (Hilary Rose) I am trying to make sense of how I came to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUfdR-1M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}