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Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace
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Author: Lynn Cherny, Elizabeth Reba Weise
List Price: $16.00
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ISBN: 1878067737
Publisher: Seal Press (April, 1996)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 79,734
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Thought provoking, fascinating, a few flaws
The essays, individually, were very strong, and collectively make for quite an interesting read. Pro: Funny in places you don't expect; don't miss the "Clitoral Hoods" response to censorship at CMU, or numerous other great touches. Con: It is a little disorienting to receive (it seemed) 6 explanations of Usenet in a row. It seems like careful editing could have prevented the essays from these tedious redundancies. More importantly, I found all the essays to be worth my time reading, save one: the sensationalistic piece of tripe about "hacker's attitudes towards women." I can only conclude that the author of this piece was hopelessly naive, or else was going out of her(?) way to create a piece of fiction doing justice to every adolescent male's fantasies of hacker eliteness. So cliche riddled it would have made me laugh if it hadn't been so far removed from the rest of the book in quality. In sum: excellent essays, well worth a read, skip the unspeakable hacker essay.
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