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Women and the machine : representations from the spinning wheel to the electronic age / Julie Wosk.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001Description: xix, 294 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0801866073
  • 9780801866074
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Women and the machine.DDC classification:
  • 306.46082 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1233 .W67 2001
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Framing Images of Women and Machines -- 2. Wired for Fashion: Images of Bustles, Corsets, and Crinolines in the Mechanical Age -- 3. The Electric Eve -- 4. Women and the Bicycle -- 5. Women and the Automobile -- 6. Women and Aviation -- 7. Women in Wartime: From Rosie the Riveter to Rosie the Housewife -- CODA: The Electronic Eve and Late-Twentieth-Century Art -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women reconfigure and transform their lives. She takes her readers through a gallery of fiction and high and low art which depicts women in their association with machines.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 306.46082 WOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A419491B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 306.46082 WOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A194432B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Framing Images of Women and Machines -- 2. Wired for Fashion: Images of Bustles, Corsets, and Crinolines in the Mechanical Age -- 3. The Electric Eve -- 4. Women and the Bicycle -- 5. Women and the Automobile -- 6. Women and Aviation -- 7. Women in Wartime: From Rosie the Riveter to Rosie the Housewife -- CODA: The Electronic Eve and Late-Twentieth-Century Art -- Notes -- Index.

Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women reconfigure and transform their lives. She takes her readers through a gallery of fiction and high and low art which depicts women in their association with machines.

Also issued online.

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