Open AccessPerempuan dan Teknologi Informasi
Author(s) -
Fahruddin Faiz
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
musawa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2503-4596
pISSN - 1412-3460
DOI - 10.14421/musawa.2007.53.415-430
Subject(s) - harmony (color) , hegemony , gender studies , deconstruction (building) , sociology , human sexuality , patriarchy , object (grammar) , political science , engineering , art , computer science , law , politics , visual arts , waste management , artificial intelligence
The patriarchal culture that is gender biased has been proven to bring a negative effect in the harmony of human life. Men and women ideally must complete one-another and support each other in different ways. However patriarchal culture has made men became the main actors, dominant and hegemonic, and women became the figurant side, on the border and unable to express themselves. This 'sidedness' in the world of informational technology is one of the real facts in this problem. This article tries to prove how women's access to the technological world has been 'walled' since the beginning and how women are positioned only as a profitable object by exploiting their body and sexuality by technological practitioners. In the end of this article, the writer advises the need of a world-view patriarchal deconstruction, a cultural revolution, and a reformation of social structure as a way out of this problem.