Gender, Technology and the New Woman /

Gender, Technology and the New Woman / / Lena Wånggren.

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The first full-length study of modern technologies in late-Victorian New Woman writingThis 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 siècle cu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Wånggren, Lena,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The New Woman in Technological Modernity
  • 2. Typewriters and Typists: Secretarial Agency at the Fin de Siècle
  • 3. The ‘Freedom Machine’: The New Woman and the Bicycle
  • 4. Medical New Women I: Nurses
  • 5. Medical New Women II: Doctors
  • 6. Technologies of Detection
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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