Women and the Machine
Subtitle: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801866074
Subjects: 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
First sentence: 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.
Description: "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.