Sally Hacker

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Sally Lynn Hacker (born 1936, died 1988) was a feminist sociologist.

Hacker investigated the cultures surrounding technology. As a sociologist she returned to school to study engineering. The American Sociological Association awards a graduate student paper award each year in her memory.

[edit] Publications

  • Pleasure, Power, and Technology: Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace, Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1989. ISBN 0-04-445204-7. Hacker's last book, it was highly praised [1].
  • Several of Hacker's articles were collected and posthumously complied in Doing it the Hard Way: Investigations of Gender and Technology, Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1990. ISBN 0-04-445434-1, which was similarly commended [2].
  • "The eye of the beholder: An essay on technology and eroticism" in Sally Hacker, Dorothy Smith & Susan Turner (Eds.), Investigations of gender and technology, Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1990.

[edit] Sources

  • Obituary for Sally Hacker (1936-1988), Science, Technology, & Human Values, Vol. 14, No. 2. (Spring, 1989), pp. 221-223.
  • A brief professional history can be found at [1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Elizabeth Maret, review in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 19, No. 5. (Sep., 1990), p. 700
  2. ^ Bonnie Wright and Heidi Gottfried, review in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 3. (May, 1992), p. 330.