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Women and the machine : representations from the spinning wheel to the electronic age / Julie Wosk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wosk, Julie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Effect of technological innovations on.
- Women.
- Women in art.
- Technology in art.
- Women in popular culture.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Technology.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Technological innovations.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 294 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Framing Images of Women and Machines 1
- 2 Wired for Fashion: Images of Bustles, Corsets, and Crinolines in the Mechanical Age 45
- 3 The Electric Eve 68
- 4 Women and the Bicycle 89
- 5 Women and the Automobile 115
- 6 Women and Aviation 149
- 7 Women in Wartime: From Rosie the Riveter to Rosie the Housewife 182
- Coda: The Electronic Eve and Late-Twentieth-Century Art 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801866073
- OCLC:
- 45087189
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