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Joan Rothschild (February 1, 1928 - February 1, 2015) was a feminist scholar and researcher into technology. She was best known for her work in gender and technology and also worked in bioethics and philosophy. Rothschild gained four awards from the National Science Foundation, and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Philosophy and Technology Studies Center at the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, June 1988- May 1989. She wrote six books relating to gender, feminism, technology and bioethics.

Life
Rothschild was born in New York City. Her parents were Anna (born Cohen) and Alfred Rothschild.

Rothschild gained a B.A. in English from Cornell University, She started her career working in print media at The New York Herald Tribune and Scholastic Magazines that she says was "an experience that saved me from the horrors of academic prose". She went on to gain an M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from New York University and had an academic career that ...

Gender and Technology
[Trace thread of work on Gender and Technology as body of work through conferences and edited books] "The essays in the collection are based on papers presented at the Re-Visioning Design and Technology: Feminist Perspectives conference held at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in November 1995"

Citations ofTeaching Technology from a Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide. The Athene Series. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED297989

Bioethics and Philosophy
[Trace thread of work leading to the dream of the perfect child]

She attended the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society in Graz, Austria, and was a Fellow in 2004/5, working on The Dream of the Perfect Child. This work was later published in The Dream of the Perfect Child. Research informing this book was funded by the National Science Foundation, award entitled Bioethics, Feminism and the "Perfect Child": an Ethics and Value Critique.

Books

 * Machina Ex Dea: Feminist Perspectives on Technology
 * Women, technology, and innovation
 * Technology and feminism


 * Teaching technology from a feminist perspective : a practical guide


 * Design and Feminism: Re-visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things


 * The dream of the perfect child

Awards
List awards from Grantome

Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship in History and Philosophy of Science, NSF

Personal Life
Joan campaigned for the democrat Adlai Stevenson II in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections.

Pankhurst Centre Garden
In 2018, a newly designed garden, designed by Janet Leigh (a garden designer based in Stockport), was opened at the Pankhurst Centre in September 2018. The garden to mark the centenary of Votes for Women, and acknowledges the work of suffragettes. It is The garden was funded by an outsourcing campaign, "

providing both a lasting tribute to the work of the suffragettes and a living and breathing space of peace and reflection in the city."Creating the garden has been part of the Pankhurst Trust’s vision for its 2018 programme of activity, which has been made possible thanks to the support of over 500 people who gave their backing to a crowdfunding campaign that raised over £24,000 in late 2017 – exceeding the original target by 20%.

Stockport-based Garden Designer Janet Leigh has created a scheme that tells the story of the incredible women who won the vote, as well as giving a tranquil, therapeutic space for the women and children who use Manchester Women’s Aid, which is also located at the Pankhurst Centre.