Rybkina E (2025)
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2025
Publisher: Routledge
Edited Volumes: Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020
City/Town: New York
ISBN: 9781040349410
Ekaterina Rybkina devotes her contribution to the history of women engaged with radio engineering in the Soviet Union. In its focus are female radio engineers who actively participated in the large socialist project of radio construction and development, and whose stories have previously remained in the shadow of their more successful male colleagues. Before WWII, radio engineering remained a masculine field shaped as a military tool. After the war, the state’s heroic narrative about female radio engineers became part of a new strategy to develop this field. This chapter underlines that the Soviet state while trying to feminize the radio field, made it unreachable to “ordinary” women. Relying on women’s ego documents, it recovers their reflections on how chosen career strategies affected their private lives and how they negotiated their gender roles in certain contexts.
APA:
Rybkina, E. (2025). Women with Transmitters: Female Engineers and the Gendering of Technology in the Soviet Union. In Grégory Dufaud, Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin (Eds.), Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020. New York: Routledge.
MLA:
Rybkina, Ekaterina. "Women with Transmitters: Female Engineers and the Gendering of Technology in the Soviet Union." Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020. Ed. Grégory Dufaud, Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin, New York: Routledge, 2025.
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