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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780197203321

Autore

Wosk Julie

Titolo

Women and the machine [[electronic resource] ] : representations from the spinning wheel to the electronic age / / Julie Wosk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore ; ; London, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-8018-7781-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.