Women And The Machine

Author : Julie Wosk
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0801877814
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Machine written by Julie Wosk and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

Author : Karen Brodine
Publisher : Red Letter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932323019
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking written by Karen Brodine and published by Red Letter Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Beth Webb Hart
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418537179
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wedding Machine written by Beth Webb Hart and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most charming books I've read in a long, long time...made me laugh, cry, and cheer--as all good weddings do." -Cassandra King, bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls Welcome to Jasper, South Carolina. A place where Southern hospitality thrives. Where social occasions are done right. And where, for generations, the four most upstanding ladies of this community ensure that the daughters of Jasper are married in the proper manner. Friends from school days, "the gals" have long pooled their silver, china, and know-how to pull off beautiful events. They're a force of nature, a well-oiled machine. But the wedding machine's gears start to stick during the summer their own daughters line up to tie the knot. In the lowcountry heat and humidity, tempers flare, old secrets leak out . . . and both love and gardenias bloom in unlikely places.

Author : Natalie Fergie
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911586246
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sewing Machine written by Natalie Fergie and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Dorothy Krall Newman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Employment of Women in the Machine-tool Industry, 1942 written by Dorothy Krall Newman and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Candice E. Jackson
Publisher : World Ahead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0974670138
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Their Lives written by Candice E. Jackson and published by World Ahead Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of eight women who crossed romantic paths with Bill Clinton are examined.

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ISBN 13 : 9789811162169
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman who Turned Into a Vending Machine written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1584351101
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Femicide Machine written by Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account and analysis of the systematic murder of women and girls in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez. In Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomalous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn't just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guarantee impunity for those crimes and even legalize them. A lawless city sponsored by a State in crisis. The facts speak for themselves. —from The Femicide Machine Best known to American readers for his cameo appearances as The Journalist in Roberto Bolano's 2666 and as a literary detective in Javier Marías's novel Dark Back of Time, Sergio González Rodríguez is one of Mexico's most important contemporary writers. He is the author of Bones in the Desert, the most definitive work on the murders of women and girls in Juárez, Mexico, as well as The Headless Man, a sharp meditation on the recurrent uses of symbolic violence; Infectious, a novel; and Original Evil, a long essay. The Femicide Machine is the first book by González Rodríguez to appear in English translation. Written especially for Semiotext(e) Intervention series, The Femicide Machine synthesizes González Rodríguez's documentation of the Juárez crimes, his analysis of the unique urban conditions in which they take place, and a discussion of the terror techniques of narco-warfare that have spread to both sides of the border. The result is a gripping polemic. The Femicide Machine probes the anarchic confluence of global capital with corrupt national politics and displaced, transient labor, and introduces the work of one of Mexico's most eminent writers to American readers.

Author : Patrick D. Hopkins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253212306
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex/Machine written by Patrick D. Hopkins and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As powerful interacting social and physical forces, gender and technology shape our experiences, cultures, and identities-sometimes in such comfortable and subtle ways that it takes effort to appreciate them; sometimes in such conspicuous and explosive ways that everyone recognizes their importance. Delving into these issues is an opportunity to discover how technology promises or threatens to rewrite our ideas about sex, sexuality, and gender identity.

Author : Jacqueline Susann
Publisher : Tiger LLC
ISBN 13 : 0996317813
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Love Machine written by Jacqueline Susann and published by Tiger LLC. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectacular bestseller from the author of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. In a time when steak, vodka, and Benzedrine were the three main staples of a healthy diet, when high-powered executives called each other “baby” and movie stars wore wigs to bed, network tycoons had a name for the TV set: they called it “the love machine.” But to supermodel Amanda, socialite Judith and journalist Maggie, “the love machine” meant something else: Robin Stone, “a TV-network titan around whom women flutter like so many moths…The novel deals with his rise and fall as he makes the international sex scene (orgying in London, transvestiting in Hamburg), drinks unlimited quantities and checks out the latest Nielsens.”—Newsweek “I READ IT IN ONE GREEDY GULP, ENJOYING EVERY MINUTE.”—Liz Smith “[Susann’s] pulp poetry resonates to this day. WITH HER FORMULA OF SEX, DRUGS, AND SHOW BUSINESS, Susann didn’t so much capture the tenor of her times as she did predict the Zeitgeist of ours.”—Detour