Please read the two chapters attached and then complete the following questions. Please cite in MLA format.
Option #2: Women and their Machines
After reading the two assigned chapters from Dyer’s From Curlers to Chainsaws, please do the following:
- For each chapter:
- Identify and describe a specific incident in the author’s life and how it connects to technology. Do you think this incident reflects the concept of technological determinism or social constructivism? Explain.
- Explain how this incident relates to the author’s gender, racial, religious, ethnic, familial, class or cultural identity.
- Assess your technological biography project and convey to the class anything from it that can relate to the idea of how technology can shape your self-conception and identity, or the self-conception and identity of the person you interviewed. How might technology enhance, expand or encompass your or your interviewee’s gender, racial, religious, ethnic, familial, class or cultural identity?
- Usetwo quotes from any of your resources to support or explain your points. Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.
- Provide references for all sources in MLA format.
Culture Discussion