The Dream of the Perfect Child, published in 2005, is my sixth book. It follows my research and teaching in the field now known as gender and technology which I helped to establish with the publication of Machina Ex Dea in 1983 (see Bibliography). At UMass Lowell for over twenty years, I taught politics, women's studies, and technology studies, returning home to New York in the 90s. I'm living happily without a car, busily writing, and enjoying the pleasures and vistas of the city of my birth. In 1995, I organized a highly successful conference at the CUNY Graduate Center on feminist perspectives on design technology which brought together architects and practitioners across the spectrum of design. Design and Feminism: Re-Visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things, published in 1999, resulted from the conference. I have a B.A. in English from Cornell University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from NYU. I had an earlier career before academe in print media at The New York Herald Tribune and Scholastic Magazines, experience that saved me from the horrors of academic prose. My books are readable!There's lots more about me at my website which includes an excerpt from my latest book, The Dream of the Perfect Child.