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"Writing from the perspective of an art historian, Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women reconfigure and transform their lives. She takes her readers through a delightful gallery of fiction and high and low art which depicts women in their association with machines.
From sitting at the spinning wheel to typing at the typewriter, driving automobiles, piloting airplanes, pounding rivets, and then working on the computer, Wosk tells the story of women celebrating their new liberties and growing competency but, along the way, gives interesting examples of ambivalence, male-engendered sexual fantasy, and fears of displacement.".
"With more than 150 images, Women and the Machine presents how American and European art, photography, advertising, and literature have depicted women interacting with technology over the past two hundred years. The book also explores the work women artists and writers have fashioned to represent their own images of machines."--BOOK JACKET.
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History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, History of engineering & technology, Human figures depicted in art, Literary studies: general, Women's studies, Women's Studies - History, 20th century, c 1800 to c 1900, Science/Mathematics, Sociology Of Women, Technology And Society, Women in art, Social Science, Sociology, History, Popular Culture - General, Science / History, Gender Studies, Women, Women in popular culture, General, Women's Studies - General, Effect of technological innova, Effect of technological innovations on, Technology in art, Social aspects, Sex role, Technological innovations, Technology, Technology, social aspectsShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age
September 9, 2003, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback
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Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age
2003, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
0801877814 9780801877810
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Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age
December 6, 2001, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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0801866073 9780801866074
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"IN 1891 AMERICA's Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper entertained readers with a revealing photograph representing a woman from the country's colonial history-a woman in a white ruffled cap sleeping quietly at her spinning wheel."
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