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Wosk Julie |
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Women and the machine [[electronic resource] ] : representations from the spinning wheel to the electronic age / / Julie Wosk |
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Baltimore ; ; London, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (317 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-279) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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