A technologist in the making: days in a girl´s life

An identity as a technologist is negotiated from an early age, and the author traces a technological strand of identity back to childhood using `experience stories´, i.e. writing about specific situations or events on a specific theme. She draws on a multi-layer definition of technology and uses conceptions of locally situated knowledge and practices to explore how a young white working-class girl might develop a familiarity with technology as part of everyday living. Class and race relations as well as gender relations are significant in constructions of technology and technological identities and subjectivities, and the author identifies these relations within the stories. By reflecting upon and interpreting these experience stories, she attempts to identify possible sources of agency in childhood for becoming a technologist, and to make visible technological acts of childhood and young adulthood that might contribute to our understanding of why some women become technologists while others do not