Judy Wajcman

Judy Wajcman
Born (1950-12-12) 12 December 1950
Academic work
Main interests Social studies of technology
Notable works TechnoFeminism

Judy Wajcman (born 12 December 1950),[1] is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[2] She is a Visiting Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her scholarly interests encompass the sociology of work, science and technology studies, gender theory, and organizational analysis. Her work has been translated into French, German, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Prior to joining the LSE in 2009, she was a Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University [3]. She was the first woman fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge (Norman Laski Research Fellow 1978–80).[4]

Wajcman was President of the  Society for the Social Studies of Science [5] (2009-2011), and is the recipient of the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award of the American Sociological Association (2013). She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva (2015) and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (2016). Her book Pressed for Time is the (2017) winner of the Ludwik Fleck prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Research

Wajcman is probably best known for her analysis of the gendered nature of technology.[6] She was an early contributor to the social studies of technology, as well as to studies of gender, work, and organisations.[7][8]

Selected bibliography

Books

Book chapters

Journal articles

References

  1. ↑ "Wajcman, Judy". Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 February 2015. Sources: found: The Social shaping of technology, 1998: CIP t.p. (Judy Wajcman, Sch. Soc., Aust. Nat. Univ.) data sheet (b. 12/12/50)
  2. ↑ "Wajcman, Judy". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Folbre, Nancy; Bittman, Michael (2004), "Contributors", in Folbre, Nancy; Bittman, Michael, Family time: the social organization of care, London New York: Routledge, p. x ISBN 9780203411650
  4. ↑ "Professor Judy Wajcman". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Past Presidents and Council Members: Presidents". 4sonline.org. Society for the Social Studies of Science. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  6. ↑ Wajcman, Judy (2001), "Gender and technology", in Wright, James D.; Smelser, Neil J.; Baltes, Paul B., International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (volume 9), Amsterdam New York: Elsevier, pp. 5976–5979, ISBN 9780080430768.
  7. ↑ Major, Debra A.; Burke, Ronald J. (2013), "Contributors", in Major, Debra A.; Burke, Ronald J., Handbook of work-life integration of professionals: challenges and opportunities, Cheltenham, UK Massachusetts, USA: Edward Elgar, p. xv, ISBN 9781781009284.
  8. ↑ Lyon, Stina (22 January 2015). "Pressed for time: The acceleration of life in digital capitalism, by Judy Wajcman (book review)". Times Higher Education. TES Global. Retrieved 10 June 2015. Her most significant message, however, relates to gender. Earlier work on the relationship between modernity, technology and time pressures engendered by the commodification of labour focused largely on men, as employers, capitalists and worker-employees, and thus on the labour process in the public domain of production, and not on the interrelated difficulties in "doing domestic time" in care, child-rearing and home maintenance.
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