Women and the machine : representations from the spinning wheel to the electronic age /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wosk, Julie
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Subjects:	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.

Description
Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	xix, 294 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-279) and index.
ISBN:	0801866073