Gendered Power and Mobile Technology

Caroline Wamala Larsson is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Head of Research with the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER), an independent resource centre at Stockholm University, Sweden.Laura Stark is Professor of Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

• List of contributors1 Rethinking gender and technology within intersections in the global South Laura Stark and Caroline Wamala LarssonPART I Mobile money in transacting femininities and masculinities2 Gender and mobile phone usage in Kenyan women’s everyday livesJessica Gustafsson 3 Sex, social reproduction, and mobile telephony as responses to precarity in urban TanzaniaLaura Stark4 Rethinking financial inclusion: social shaping of mobile money among bodaboda men in Kampala Caroline Wamala LarssonPART II Mobile connectivities: negotiating age, gender, and agency5 One phone, two phones, four phones: older women and mobile telephony in Lima, PeruMireia Fernández-Ardèvol6 Redefining relations: the appropriation of new ICT by young rural women in PeruMariana Barreto Ávila and Andrea García Abad7 Reinforcing inequalities? Mobile telephony and HIV/AIDs in GhanaPerpetual CrentsilPART III Mobile continuities at the intersection of ethnicity, class, and gender8 Women's tech initiatives in Uganda: doing intersectionality and feminist technoscienceLinda Paxling9 Digital snails? Shuar women and mobile communication in EcuadorYolanda Martínez Suárez and Saleta de Salvador Agra10 Communitarian mobile telephony services in rural Mexico: Red Celular Talea de Castro and Telecomunicaciones Indigenas ComunitariasLorena PérezIndex

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