Software Design: a deconstructivist feminist approach
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Generally speaking, practice-based research on gender and information technology is strongly dominated by feminist approaches emphasizing the difference between women and men. This position paper suggests a deconstructivist feminist approach and outlines how a combination of design oriented research in Computer Supported Cooperative Work, qualitative Software Engineering research and Critical Design Practice can gain from a theoretical underpinning avoiding dichotomous gender conceptions.
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