Publisher's Synopsis
How does the Internet serve to blur maleness and femaleness into a more neutered, techno-gendered emailness? And why have so many come to favor these cyber relationships over face-to-face interactions? In a book that is as readable as it is rich in implication, Michael Civin reveals the extent to which these relationships reflect adaptations - adaptive as well as maladaptive - to the experience of pervasive, psychologically threatening conditions of living. In one of the final chapters, he extends his discussion to the workplace, exploring how these cyber representations impact both the individual employees and the organizations themselves. To borrow from Morris Eagle, Male, Female, E-mail is, quite simply, a book that "sheds much light on the way we now live."
