The Political Economy of Time in the Internet Era

Feminist Perspectives and Challenges

Bibliographic Data

ID20508232
AuthorsGillian Youngs (0000-0001-5256-6637, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume4
Issue1
Pages14-33
Publication date2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInformation Communication & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-118X • E-ISSN: 1468-4462
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/713768513
OpenAlexW2056884588
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited26

This paper examines the gender matrix of time, arguing for cross-disciplinary consideration of political economy, globalization and technology to achieve a detailed understanding of gendered hierarchies of time and the ways in which public/private identifications of social space and time have variously constructed and maintained them. It is argued that women are alienated from their own time, which is identified as most legitimately allocated to the service of others both in the home and at work. The inter-relationship of technologies and gendered identities is explored in relation to public/private divisions and the political-economic and scientific-technological knowledge processes that contribute to upholding them. ICTs reflect these historically established gendered patterns, but international projects such as 'Women on the Net' also demonstrate the capacities of these technologies for disrupting the gender matrix of time through their use by women for women.

Discipline · Division of labour · Globalization · ICTS · Information and Communications Technology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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