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Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century.

Publication: California History
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)

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SILICON VALLEY, WOMEN, AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM: GENDER, CLASS, AND OPPORTUNITY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

By Glenna Matthews (Stanford University Press, 2003, 313 pp., $22.95, cloth).

Glenna Matthews joins a growing number of scholars whose work serves as a reminder that there is another side to Silicon Valley. Popular culture knows Silicon Valley as the region that has produced phenomenal technological achievements, a new economy, and a few fabulously wealthy individuals. Matthews, however, inscribes a second and vividly contrasting image that highlights the experiences of the forgotten masses, long huddled on the margins of...

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