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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wånggren, Lena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The new woman in technological modernity
  • Typewriters and typists : secretarial agency at the fin de siècle
  • The 'freedom machine' : the new woman and the bicycle
  • Medical new women I : nurses
  • Medical new women II : doctors
  • Technologies of detection.