Contents: ACME, Vol. 5, issue 1, 2006

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies

Volume 5, Issue 1, 2006

Editors

Harald Bauder, Lawrence Berg, David Butz, Caroline Desbiens, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Sara González, and Rachel Pain

Special Issue:

Gender, Space and Technology

Guest Edited by

Kate Boyer

Contents:

Introduction: Gender, Space and technology

Kate Boyer

Working the Night Shift: Gender and the Global Economy

Reena Patel

Calling on Femininity? Gender, Call Centers, and Restructuring in the Rural American West

Anne Bonds

“I Go On The Internet; I Always, You Know, Check To See What’s New”: Chronically ill women’s use of online health information to shape and inform doctor-patient interactions in the space of care provision

Valorie A. Crooks

Global Midwifery and the Technologies of Emotion

Maria Fannin

“Our Website Was Revolutionary”: Virtual Spaces of Representation and Resistance

Jennifer L. Fluri

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