Women and the machine [[electronic resource] ] : representations from the spinning wheel to the electronic age / / Julie Wosk
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Wosk Julie
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| Titolo: |
Women and the machine [[electronic resource] ] : representations from the spinning wheel to the electronic age / / Julie Wosk
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore ; ; London, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women and the machine |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-7781-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780197203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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