[Air-l] RE: Gender and media preference

Holly Kruse holly-kruse at utulsa.edu
Mon Aug 8 14:50:23 PDT 2005


> The telephone is also an interesting comparison, and I know several
> researchers have noted that women also use/enjoy the telephone more than do
> men, so much so that the telephone is sometimes considered a gendered device:

A key work in this area, and one that Claude Fischer cites quite a bit in
_America Calling_ is Lana Rakow's book _Gender on the Line: Women, the
Telephone, and Community Life_.


Holly


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