Women, Class and Technology

By Tracy Mitrano. Little did the ACE Women’s Network of New York know that when they asked me to give a talk on “Legal Challenges Facing Women” at the Culinary Institute of America last week that I referred first to my historian’s training and then to the law degree in preparing the materials.  I can’t talk about law without thinking about its historical context.  And it turns out that an audience wants to go a layer deeper, into anthropology, to understand why trans-historically and cross-culturally men dominate women. Read more...