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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:
- 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. FRAMING IMAGES ; 2. WIRED for FASHION; 3. The ELECTRIC EVE; 4. WOMEN and the BICYCLE; 5. WOMEN and the AUTOMOBILE; 6. WOMEN and AVIATION; 7. WOMEN in WARTIME; CODA The ELECTRONIC EVE; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7781-4
- OCLC:
- 923190888
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