Women and the Machine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and the Machine write by Julie Wosk. This book was released on 2001. Women and the Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Women and the Machine
Women and the Machine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and the Machine write by Julie Wosk. This book was released on 2003-04-01. Women and the Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An engaging study of the ways women and machines have been represented in art, photography, advertising, and literature.” —Arwen Palmer Mohun, University of Delaware From sexist jokes about women drivers to such empowering icons as Amelia Earhart and Rosie the Riveter, representations of the relationship between women and modern technology in popular culture have been both demeaning and celebratory. Depictions of women as timid and fearful creatures baffled by machinery have alternated with images of them as being fully capable of technological mastery and control—and of lending sex appeal to machines as products. In Women and the Machine, historian Julie Wosk maps the contradictory ways in which women’s interactions with—and understanding of—machinery has been defined in Western popular culture since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on both visual and literary sources, Wosk illuminates popular gender stereotypes that have burdened women throughout modern history while underscoring their advances in what was long considered the domain of men. Illustrated with more than 150 images, Women and the Machine reveals women rejoicing in their new liberties and technical skill even as they confront society’s ambivalence about these developments, along with male fantasies and fears. “Engaging and entertaining . . . Using illustrations, cartoons and photographs from the past three centuries, Wosk delineates shifts in social acceptance of women’s relationship to technology . . . her work is complex, comprehensive and highly readable.” —Publishers Weekly “Art historian Wosk analyzes the overt and covert messages in depictions of women and machines in an array of fiction and, more impressively, in some 150 visual images.” —Booklist
Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking
Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking write by Karen Brodine. This book was released on 1990. Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Karen Brodine's award-winning feminist poetry explores themes of work, activism, sexual identity, family, language, and the author's fight against breast cancer. Published in 1990, WOMAN SITTING AT THE MACHINE, THINKING is the posthumously published, fourth collection of poems by a breakthrough writer on feminist, lesbian and workingclass themes. Brodine's work is widely published in anthologies. This collection includes a bibliography of Brodine's writing, a preface by the renowned feminist and radical poet Meridel LeSueur, and an introduction by Asian American lesbian poet Merle Woo.
Employment of Women in the Machine-tool Industry, 1942
Employment of Women in the Machine-tool Industry, 1942 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Employment of Women in the Machine-tool Industry, 1942 write by Dorothy Krall Newman. This book was released on 1943. Employment of Women in the Machine-tool Industry, 1942 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Sewing Machine
The Sewing Machine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sewing Machine write by Natalie Fergie. This book was released on 2017-04-17. The Sewing Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over 100,000 copies sold 'A tapestry of strong characters and accomplished writing' Herald Scotland It is 1911, and Jean is about to join the mass strike at the Singer factory. For her, nothing will be the same again. Decades later, in Edinburgh, Connie sews coded moments of her life into a notebook, as her mother did before her. More than a hundred years after his grandmother’s sewing machine was made, Fred discovers a treasure trove of documents. His family history is laid out before him in a patchwork of unfamiliar handwriting and colourful seams. He starts to unpick the secrets of four generations, one stitch at a time.
