Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Thompson, Isabelle, Smith, Elizabeth Overman
In: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 36, 2006, 2, p. 183-199
published:
SAGE Publications
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 183-199
ISSN: 0047-2816
1541-3780
DOI: 10.2190/4juc-8rac-73h6-n57u
published in: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Language: English
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Collection: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
Table of Contents

<jats:p> The purposes of this study are to determine the current status of scholarship published in five major technical communication journals about women and feminism and to identify changes in focus that may have occurred over the last five years. We begin with a discussion of the frequency of publication for articles whose titles have keywords relating to women and feminism. After identifying 21 articles, we consider the thematic patterns in the narrowed corpus. We conclude that scholarly publication about women and feminism in technical communication has moved from a moderate or radical concern for inclusion to a postmodern concern for critique of visual, verbal, and mechanical “technologies,” which previously were not considered political. </jats:p>