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And here I am no doubt going to shock you by speaking of positive technologies, inventions that have often been very “feminine.” Every new bomb bore a woman’s name, every airplane, every ship. Canning, for example, was one of the first objects of industrialization that brought about real change. For the first time, a whole population of women was no longer confined to the kitchen, no longer had to do the canning or cooking herself, and the new situation constituted a threat to traditional patriarchal society. This is why, with the invention of every positive technology, an antifeminist discourse sprang up, as a warning.

-Avital Ronell, Fighting Theory