The document appears to be a presentation about women in technology and feminism throughout history given on January 24, 2011. It discusses early feminist thinkers like Christine de Pisan and Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as more modern figures like Rebecca West. The presentation also covers topics like the digitization of The Dawn newspaper and the work of women as early computer programmers, such as with the CSIRAC machine in Australia.

1. We are here.
We have always been here.
Donna Benjamin
@kattekrab
donna@cc.com.au

2. pad.cc.com.au/haecksen2011
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3. Who am I?
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4. Does it matter?
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6. Creative
Contingencies
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7. Citizen of the
Community
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8. Feminist
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9. History
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10. Christine de Pisan
lecturing men
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11. Christine de Pizan
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13. Mary
Wollstonecraft
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14. Vindication of
the rights of
Women
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15. "I do not wish women
to have power over men;
but over themselves."
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17. Rebecca West
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18. "I myself have never been
able to find out precisely what
feminism is: I only know
that people call me a feminist
whenever I express sentiments
that differentiate me from a
doormat, or a prostitute."
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19. Herstory
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20. Information
Technology
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21. Louise Dunkley
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22. Victorian Women's
Post and Telegraph
Association
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25. Louisa Lawson
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26. Let's Digitise
The Dawn
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27. AUS $7,000.00
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29. Kay Thorne
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30. CSIRAC
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31. “Betty Laby ran a lab in the
Statistics Department in which
a large number of women
operated calculators,
processing data for the
predominantly male
staff & researchers.
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32. These women
were often
called computers,
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33. it was a skilled
and demanding
occupation.”
Kay Thorne
http://museumvictoria.com.au/csirac/programming/kthorne.aspx
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34. “A woman
programmer's
view
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/themes/2840/csirac-a-woman-programmer-s-view
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35. Belinda Pearson
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36. Ada
Lovelace
Day
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37. Thank
you

38. Image credits
Donna Benjamin by Stewart Smith – from flickr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewartsmith/4754118008/in/faves-kattekrab/
Christine de Pizan – from wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Christine_de_Pisan_-_cathedra.jpg
Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie – from wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marywollstonecraft.jpg
Rebecca West by Madame Yevonde – from wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rebecca_West.jpg
WACs operating teletype by DoD – from history.army.mil
http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/wac/p10.gif
Louisa Lawson – National Library of Australia
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4464670
Kay Thorne – Museum Victoria
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/itemimages/256/102/256102_large.jpg
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39. We are here.
We have always been here.
Donna Benjamin
@kattekrab
donna@cc.com.au