Gender, Ethics and Information Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Gender and Information and Communications Technologies — It’s not for Girls!

   • Alison Adam

   Pages 1-16

3. Feminist Political and Legal Theory: The Public/Private Dichotomy

   • Alison Adam

   Pages 17-36

4. Feminist Ethics: Ethics in a Different Voice

   • Alison Adam

   Pages 37-55

5. The Rise of Computer Ethics: From Professionalism to Legislative Failures

   • Alison Adam

   Pages 56-77

6. Gender and Computer Ethics — Contemporary Approaches and Contemporary Problems

   • Alison Adam

   Pages 78-101

7. Internet Dating, Cyberstalking and Internet Pornography: Gender and the Gaze

   • Alison Adam

   Pages 102-127

8. Hacking into Hacking: Gender and the Hacker Phenomenon

   • Alison Adam

   Pages 128-146

9. Someone to Watch Over Me — Gender, Technologies, Privacy and Surveillance

   • Alison Adam

   Pages 147-170

10. Epilogue: Feminist Cyberethics?

    • Alison Adam

    Pages 171-176

11. Back Matter

    Pages 177-196

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This book brings feminist philosophy, in the shape of feminist ethics, politics and legal theory, to an analysis of computer ethics problems including hacking, privacy, surveillance, cyberstalking and Internet dating. Adam claims that these issues cannot be properly understood unless we see them as problems relating to gender. For the first time, these issues are put under the feminist spotlight to show that traditional responses reproduce the public/private split which has so often reinforced the causes of women's oppression.

• communication
• Computer
• ethics
• feminism
• feminist philosophy
• gender
• information
• information technology
• Internet
• philosophy
• politics
• women

'This book is highly recommended for those involved in computer ethics, both academics and practitioners, and also those involved with the social studies of science and technology more generally. However, it also deserves a much wider audience of those concerned with the continuing ubiquity of gendered inequalities.' - David Sanford Horner, Information, Communication& Society

ALISON ADAM is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Salford, UK. She is the author of Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine (1998) and co-editor of Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity (2001).

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