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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 294 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0801877814
  • 9780801877810
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women and the machine.DDC classification:
  • 306.4/6/082 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1233 .W67 2001eb
Other classification:
  • 71.33
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Contents:
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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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-279) and 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.

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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