Women and the machine : representations from the spinning wheel to the electronic age / Julie Wosk.
Material type: TextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001Description: xix, 294 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0801866073
- 9780801866074
- 306.46082 21
- HQ1233 .W67 2001
- Also issued online.
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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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