Women and the machine : representations from the spinning wheel to the electronic age /
Julie Wosk.
- xix, 294 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Framing Images of Women and Machines -- Wired for Fashion: Images of Bustles, Corsets, and Crinolines in the Mechanical Age -- The Electric Eve -- Women and the Bicycle -- Women and the Automobile -- Women and Aviation -- Women in Wartime: From Rosie the Riveter to Rosie the Housewife -- CODA: The Electronic Eve and Late-Twentieth-Century Art -- Notes -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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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Women--Effect of technological innovations on Women in art Technology in art Women in popular culture Technology--Social aspects Technological innovations--Social aspects Sex role