Gender, technology and the new woman /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wånggren, Lena (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Equality in literature.
Technology in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Féminisme dans la littérature.
Technologie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
English literature
English literature > Women authors
Equality in literature
Feminism in literature
Technology in literature
Women in literature
Englisch
Feminismus
Geschlechterrolle > Motiv
Literatur
Technologie > Motiv
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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