The intimate life of computers : digitizing domesticity in the 1980s /

"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. Emphasizing the neglected history of the influence of women's culture and feminist critique on the deve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hilu, Reem, 1985- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2024]
Subjects:	Computers and families > History. Computers > Social aspects > History. Microcomputers > Social aspects > History. Ordinateurs et familles > Histoire. Ordinateurs > Aspect social > Histoire. Micro-ordinateurs > Aspect social > Histoire. COMPUTERS / Social Aspects Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Defining Companionate Computing
A Ménage à Trois with Your Computer: Romance Software as Mediator for Couples
"Not an Appliance, but a Friend": Personal Robots and Participant Fatherhood
"A Doll That Understands You": Computer Talking Dolls as Parenting Proxies
Sex and the Singles Game: Adult Games, Cringe, and Critiques of Masculine Seduction
Coda: Companionate Computing and Its Echoes.