Lauren Balser – Confluence

Bittersweet Hope

by Lauren BalserPosted on January 31, 2022January 31, 2022CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar

Feminism and Potential Futures in George Gissing’s "The Odd Women" and Kate Chopin’s "The Awakening"

How Computing Became Masculine in the Cold War

by Lauren BalserPosted on September 24, 2021First-Year Research SeminarResearch

Unlike factory or shipyard work, for which there was a masculine precedent prior to the Rosie the Riveter-era of feminism, there was no set computing culture prior to the beginning of the Cold War because the industry did not exist. What changed?