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Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age PDF

317 Pages·2001·1.451 MB·English
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by Ms. Julie Wosk| 2001| 317 pages| 1.451| English

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Comprehensive visual history of relationship of women and technology. Writing from the perspective of an art historian, Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women reconfigure and transform their lives. In Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age, Wosk 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, to 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 women and machines have appeared in art, photography, advertising, cartoons, and literature in America and Western Europe 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. In dramatically contrasting views, the images Wosk has collected portray women as timid and fearful creatures, baffled by the workings of science and technology, and yet fully capable of machine mastery and control—and of making machines beguiling as products. Women and the Machine illuminates popular gender stereotypes that have haunted women throughout history while underscoring the advances women have achieved in the supposedly male world of machines.

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Author:Ms. Julie Wosk
Publication Year:2001
ISBN:9780801877810
Pages:317
Language:English
File Size:1.451
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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