{"id":632,"date":"2017-02-27T02:05:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T08:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2017-02-27T02:08:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T08:08:36","slug":"my-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"My New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"small cover\" src=\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/img\/ProgrammedInequalityBookCoverAmazon4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"316\" \/>My book, <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/programmed-inequality\"><em>Programmed Inequality<\/em><em>: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Their Edge in Computing<\/em><\/a>, has just been published by MIT Press, in their history of computing series. I&#8217;m enormously excited to be able to add to the literature in the history of gender, sexuality, and computing in this way, and I&#8217;m also glad to be giving several talks about the book around the country and in the UK in the coming months (<a href=\"http:\/\/programmedinequality.com\">see here for a schedule<\/a>). If you&#8217;d like to read more about the book&#8211;including the <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Introduction%20Programmed%20Inequality.pdf\">full introduction<\/a>&#8211;see the <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/programmed-inequality\">MIT Press page<\/a>. In addition, I recently did an <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoinno.streetwise.co\/2017\/02\/03\/how-techs-gender-gap-influences-a-countrys-computing-power\/\">interview with ChicagoInno<\/a> about it that provides a good overview of why we should care about the history of British computing, and how it&#8217;s a cautionary tale for the US in the 21st century.<em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book, Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Their Edge in Computing, has just been published by MIT Press, in their history of computing series. I&#8217;m enormously excited to be able to add to the literature in the history of gender, sexuality, and computing in this way, and I&#8217;m also glad to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-history-of-computing","category-sts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marhicks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}