Technol Cult. 2026;67(3):973-7. doi: 10.1353/tech.2026.a996506.

ABSTRACT

This article offers the first comprehensive review of women's contributions and gender-focused research in Technology and Culture (T&C) from its early years through 2025. Using a mixed-methods approach that combines distant reading of digital publication datasets with qualitative mapping of milestones and turning points in the history of T&C, the article examines how the gender composition of authors evolved over time, how this has influenced the journal's content, and what broader role feminist theory has played in shaping new scholarly directions in the history of technology. Findings reveal that while women authors and gender-focused studies have steadily increased in number, engagement with feminist theory followed a less linear trajectory. Early historians advanced feminist approaches that influenced fields such as feminist science and technology studies and feminist digital humanities. Yet the normalization of gender analysis within the history of technology did not produce a similarly consolidated feminist historiographical tradition. The article concludes by outlining possible directions for recovering a more explicit feminist historiographical and methodological conversation within the field and across adjacent interdisciplinary domains.

PMID:42544481 | DOI:10.1353/tech.2026.a996506