livingbooksabouthistory.ch - Living Books About History

Description: Living Books about History represent a new form of digital anthology. They present short essays on current topics of scholarly interest accompanied by selected contributions that are freely available online.

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Living Books about History represent a new form of digital anthology. They present short essays on current topics of scholarly interest accompanied by selected contributions that are freely available online. Read more

The project is testing a new form of scholarly publication and aims to draw attention to the potentials of open access by rediscovering and reusing scholarly texts and sources.

This living book analyses how the role of women in computing has evolved in the US and Europe from the 1940s. It studies how this field became more and more a masculine domain, while giving an overview of gendered practices and uses.

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