Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities: On the Index Thomisticus Project 1954-67

Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities explores the data-driven labor of women in the early digital humanities, challenging exclusionary readings of the field's history and highlighting the importance of alternative genealogies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 242 pages
Publication date: 26 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities delves into the data-driven labor that propelled the Index Thomisticus, a groundbreaking project in the early digital humanities. Through oral history and archival research, Nyhan uncovers a hidden history of gender entanglements in the intellectual and technical work of the early digital humanities. By placing feminized keypunching in its historical contexts, from concordance making to the feminization of the office and humanities computing, the book offers fresh insights into the categories of work that deserved recognition and attribution. It challenges exclusionary readings of the history of computing in the humanities and highlights the overlooked data-driven labor of lesser-known individuals. Contributing to ongoing discussions about alternative genealogies of computing, the book also addresses current debates about diversity and representation in the Academy and the broader computing sector.

This book will appeal to researchers and students in digital humanities, library and information science, the history of computing, oral history, the history of the humanities, and the sociology of knowledge and science.

Weight: 467g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367685980