Nuts and Bolts and People : Gender-troubled Engineering Identities
Nuts and Bolts and People : Gender-troubled Engineering Identities
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基本要素与人：受性别困扰的工程身份
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-319-16172-3_2
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
W. Faulkner
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作者：
W. Faulkner
鉴于社会性被强烈标记为女性化，技术被标记为男性化，在工程身份和实践中如何以及在何处划定“技术”和“社会”之间的界限是女权主义技术研究的一个核心问题。我利用建筑设计工程的人种学观察来探索这些主题。这是一种高度异构和网络化的工程实践，它给所涉及的个人带来了麻烦的边界和身份——这在工程师和建筑师之间以及工程师之间围绕管理和设计的互动中很明显。这里的工作存在着复杂的性别紧张和职业紧张。我的结论是，工程师之所以坚持技术专家的工程身份，部分原因是他们与现有的男性气质融合在一起（并表现出），而女性（被认为和感觉到的）作为“真正的”工程师的成员资格可能比男性更脆弱。提高女性在工程领域的代表性需要突出并庆祝性别和工程领域的异质性。
How and where boundaries are drawn between ‘the technical’ and ‘the social’ in engineering identities and practices is a central concern for feminist technology studies, given the strong marking of sociality as feminine and technology as masculine. I explore these themes, drawing on ethnographic observations of building design engineering. This is a profoundly heterogeneous and networked engineering practice, which entails troubled boundaries and identities for the individuals involved – evident in interactions between engineers and architects, and amongst engineers, around management and design. There are complex gender tensions, as well as professional tensions, at work here. I conclude that engineers cleave to technicist engineering identities in part because they converge with (and perform) available masculinities, and that women’s (perceived and felt) membership as ‘real’ engineers is likely to be more fragile than men’s. Improving the representation of women in engineering requires foregrounding and celebrating heterogeneity in genders as well as engineering.