From Shipwright to Naval Constructor

The Professionalization of 18th-Century French Naval Shipbuilders

Bibliographic Data

ID4023487
AuthorsJames Pritchard (corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume28
Issue1
Pages1
Publication date1987-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTechnology and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3105474
OpenAlexW1965641459
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This volume introduces a new generation of historical scholarship. Historians of technology have long encouraged each other to find ways to broaden studies of technology: to incorporate women's experience as well as men's; to maintain historical understandings of context and contingency; to resist narrowing studies of technology to the machine shop or the drafting table. These articles pursue the implications of such prescriptions, making use of recent theoretical literature on gender to explore connections between technology and culture in ways not fully possible before. Following such paths of inquiry makes clear this project's formidable scope. Gender ideologies play a central role in human interactions with technology, and technology in Western culture is crucial to the ways male and female identities are formed, gender structures defined, and gender ideologies constructed. Despite the pervasive importance of both gender and technology as parts of the human experience, scholars have only begun to explore their historical interrelationships. Seeking to facilitate a richer conversation about these issues, we address this introduction, and the historiographical essay following, to both historians of technology and scholars studying gender

Aeronautics · Ancient history · Political science · Professionalization · Shipbuilding · Engineering · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law

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