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Gender, technology and the new woman /
This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de si÷cle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-centu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de si÷cle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the ́⁰crisis in gendeŕ⁰₉ or ́⁰sexual anarchý⁰₉ of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine. As this monograph demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in this technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474416276 1474416276 1474416284 9781474416283 1474434649 9781474434645 |