Please forward this info to appropriate lists, FB groups etc.  Apologies for cross-posting.

 

Best wishes

 

Gail Chester

Luddites200: www.luddites200.org.uk

 

 

In the home and at work, women and men have different relationships to technology.  Women have traditionally been excluded from science and engineering and are put in the role of users and operators of new technology.  Do technologies like IVF and domestic machinery really benefit women or entrench their existing social roles?  How do shifts in technology affect the oppression of women?

 

When: 7pm September 9th 2013

Where: Fairly Square Bar & Cafe, 51 Red Lion St London WC1R 4PF

 

Introductions from: 

• Cynthia Cockburn, feminist activist and author of Machinery of Dominance, Gender and Technology in the Making, and Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change
  
• David King Human Genetics Alert
  
• Connie Hunter Women's Environmental Network

For the full list of forthcoming events, see below or visit the Breaking the Frame blog.  For more information contact luddites200@yahoo.co.uk.

 

 

Technology dominates our world, but many people think ‘its just a neutral tool’ or that technology equals progress. Although it does, of course, bring benefits, technology is largely designed and controlled by corporate, military and patriarchal elites to serve their interests and exert their power.  To prepare for a gathering next May, we are organising a series of monthly events to look at the technology politics of food, energy, work, war, the economy, health etc. Gender issues are part of our analysis from the beginning and are included in all of our meetings.  There will be speakers from campaigning groups and lots of time for discussion. 

 

When: 7pm 2nd Monday of the month

Where: Fairly Square Bar and Cafe, 51 Red Lion St London WC1R 4PF

 

For more information visit the Breaking the Frame blog, Facebook: Breaking the Frame or contact luddites200@yahoo.co.uk.