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| Notes on contributors | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Editors' note | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Introductory essay and general issues | |
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| Introductory essay: the social shaping of technology | |
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| Do artifacts have politics? | |
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| Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium | |
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| Edison and electric light | |
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| Inventing personal computing | |
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| Constructing a bridge | |
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| Competing technologies and economic prediction | |
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| The social construction of technology | |
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| Redefining the social link: from baboons to humans | |
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| Caught in the wheels: the high cost of being a female cog in the male machinery of engineering | |
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| Making 'white' people white | |
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| The technology of production | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The watermill and feudal authority | |
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| The machine versus the worker | |
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| Technology and capitalist control | |
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| Social choice in machine design: the case of automatically controlled machine tools | |
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| The material of male power | |
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| What machines can't do: politics and technology in the industrial enterprise | |
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| Writers, texts and writing acts: gendered user images in word processing software | |
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| Learning by trying: the implementation of configurational technology | |
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| Working relations of technology production and use | |
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| Reproductive technology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The industrial revolution in the home | |
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| A gendered socio-technical construction: the smart house | |
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| A woman's place: Dolores Hayden on the 'grand domestic revolution' | |
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| Inserting Grafenberg's IUD into the sex reform movement | |
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| The decline of the one-size-fits-all paradigm, or, how reproductive scientists try to cope with postmodernity | |
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| Military technology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cold war and white heat: the origins and meanings of packet switching | |
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| Manufacturing gender in military cockpit design | |
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| The American Army and the M-16 rifle | |
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| The Thor-Jupiter controversy | |
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| The weapons succession process | |
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| Theories of technology and the abolition of nuclear weapons | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |