The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s

A feminist perspective on the early history of personal computing, revealing how computers were integrated into the most intimate aspects of family life

The Intimate Life of Computers shows how the widespread introduction of home computers in the 1980s was purposefully geared toward helping sustain heteronormative middle-class families by shaping relationships between users. Moving beyond the story of male-dominated computer culture, this book emphasizes the neglected history of the influen...