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

Wosk, Julie.

Women and the machine : representations from the spinning wheel to the electronic age / Julie Wosk. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. - 1 online resource (xix, 294 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-279) and index.

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 -- The electronic Eve and Late-Twentieth-Century art.

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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.
Femmes, Effets des innovations sur les.
Femmes dans l'art.
Technologie dans l'art.
Femmes dans la culture populaire.
Technologie--Aspect social.
Innovations--Aspect social.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Femmes--Effets des innovations sur.
sex role.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Sex role.
Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Technology in art.
Technology--Social aspects.
Women--Effect of technological innovations on.
Women in art.
Women in popular culture.
Technische Innovation
Geschichte
Technik
Volkskultur
Kunst
Frau
Vrouwen.
Techniek.
Industriële productie.
Representatie (algemeen)


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