Overview
Problem Statement
How have shifts in robotics and related information technologies interacted with ideologies of gender and body politics in the 20th century United States?
Video Essay
This video essay serves as an introduction to questions addressed in Hal's Honors History thesis, which looks at how robotics and emerging information technologies interact with gender frameworks as cultural symbols, physical embodiments, and mental models in the 20th century United States.
The project seeks to argue that robotics development's relationship to gender interacts visibly with social understandings of gender and body politic, and its relationship to power, as demonstrated through shifts in technology movements in media and industry.