Wosk, Julie,

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.



0801866073 9780801866074

00011530


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

HQ1233 / .W67 2001

306.46082