Synopsis
An illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias has skewed innovation, technology, and history
It all starts with a rolling suitcase. Though the wheel was invented some five thousand years ago, and the suitcase in the nineteenth century, it wasn’t until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because “real men” carried their bags, no matter how heavy.
Mother of Invention is a fascinating and eye-opening examination of business, technology, and innovation through a feminist lens. Because it wasn’t just the suitcase. Drawing on examples from electric cars to bra seamstresses to tech billionaires, Marçal shows how gender bias stifles the economy and holds us back, delaying innovations, sometimes by hundreds of years, and distorting our understanding of our history. While we talk about the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, we might as well talk about the “Ceramic Age” or the “Flax Age,” since these technologies were just as important. But inventions associated with women are not considered to be technology in the same way.
This is a sweeping tour of the global economy with a powerful message: if we upend our biases, we can unleash our full potential.
It all starts with a rolling suitcase. Though the wheel was invented some five thousand years ago, and the suitcase in the nineteenth century, it wasn’t until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because “real men” carried their bags, no matter how heavy.
Mother of Invention is a fascinating and eye-opening examination of business, technology, and innovation through a feminist lens. Because it wasn’t just the suitcase. Drawing on examples from electric cars to bra seamstresses to tech billionaires, Marçal shows how gender bias stifles the economy and holds us back, delaying innovations, sometimes by hundreds of years, and distorting our understanding of our history. While we talk about the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, we might as well talk about the “Ceramic Age” or the “Flax Age,” since these technologies were just as important. But inventions associated with women are not considered to be technology in the same way.
This is a sweeping tour of the global economy with a powerful message: if we upend our biases, we can unleash our full potential.
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3 éditions pour ce livre
2021 Editions Autrement
Traduit par Hélène Hervieu
336 pages
13 octobre 2021
ISBN : 9782746760905
2021 Editions Abrams
304 pages
19 octobre 2021
ISBN : 9781419758041
2021 Editions Autrement
Traduit par Hélène HERVIEU
315 pages
Format : ePub
13 octobre 2021
ISBN : 9782746761964
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Un livre qui me laisse mi-figue mi-raisin. Certains chapitres m'ont beaucoup intéressés et pour d'autres, je suis passée complètement à côté. Pourtant, l'idée d'allier sciences, féminisme, philosophie, économie et sociologie est très intéressant. Je pense qu'il faut simplement envisager ce livre comme un livre de chevet, à lire au compte goutte.