Sally Hacker

Sara "Sally" Lynn Hacker (née Swank, September 25, 1936 – July 24, 1988) was a feminist sociologist who investigated cultures surrounding technology. She was interested in how changes in technology affected gender stratification.

Biography Hacker was born and raised in Litchfield, Illinois. In her junior year of high school, she was expelled for becoming pregnant with her son.

From 1971 to 1976, she was an assistant professor of sociology at Drake University.

She was a professor of sociology at Oregon State University (OSU) from 1977 until 1988. Hacker died of lung cancer in Corvallis, Oregon July 24, 1988.

The American Sociological Association awards a graduate student paper award each year in her memory. In 1999, an annual award called the Sally Hacker Prize was established by the Society for the History of Technology. This award recognizes "exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy toward a broad audience."

Publications

Pleasure, Power, and Technology: Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace, Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1989. . Doing it the Hard Way: Investigations of Gender and Technology, Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1990. . Posthumous collection of Hacker's articles. "The eye of the beholder: An essay on technology and eroticism" in Sally Hacker, Dorothy Smith & Susan Turner (Eds.), Investigations of gender and technology, Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1990.