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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-279) and index
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
Framing images of women and machines -- Wired for fashion: images of bustles, corsets, and crinolines in the mechanical age -- The electric Eve -- Women and the bicycle -- Women and the automobile -- Women and aviation -- Women in wartime: from Rosie the riveter to Rosie the housewife -- The electronic Eve and Late-Twentieth-Century art